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One of Jiang's interpretive outcomes for a metaphor, especially the cave image and his attempt to classify the student's ball analogy.
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simulation
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...kind of own networks and talk to them, talk to the simulation. Okay. Yes?"
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The student proposals Jiang tests include character simulation through inner networks and imaginative priming through deep reading and art exposure, but he treats both as incomplete.
model
Jiang accepts the student's account of art-viewing as an oscillation among viewer, artist, subject, and object, calling it a dialogue or simulation that tries to bring self and painting together.
definition
Jiang says the cave metaphor makes the universe look like a simulation rather than reality.
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Jiang claims chatbot interfaces rely on interaction design and language tricks that make users project understanding onto systems that simulate answers.
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Jiang says AI companions and spiritualized machine interactions are a deception that will trap people inside individualized matrices and deeper forms of Plato's cave.
model
Jiang says his ambition is to create a blueprint for an AI system that can run hundreds of simulations based on different actions and thereby guide future leaders more effectively.
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"...kind of own networks and talk to them, talk to the simulation. Okay. Yes?"
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"It's going a bit far, but you can, I think you can, I've never read of it, but you can prime yourself with imagination...."
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"I understand. Okay. But all you're telling me is like Virgil is a projection of Dante, right? Virgil exists within Dante's larger imagination. But..."
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"Yes? I usually try to dissolve myself, a kind of disassociation in order to assimilate within the painting, trying to forget yourself, trying to..."
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"Okay, that's a really interesting comment, okay? But I want you to break it down for us and try to literally explain what's going..."
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"So it's like constantly trying to ebb and flow between doing what being the viewer and being the artist, being the subject and being..."
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"...okay, so it's a dialogue, right? A dialogue assimilation, okay, yeah. Simulation, right? Would it be fair to say that when you do this..."
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"...mirrors the entire universe. OK, a cave is basically just a simulation. Is that fair to say? A cave would be a simulation. It's..."
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"Okay. All right. So what I'm going to do now is really quickly, all right, explain to you what AI is and to understand..."
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"And in a psychology hotline, you think you're talking to a person, but it's actually a computer program that says two things. Tell me..."
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"well why does it notice work because the audience wants it to work if you go in skeptical and says this is all complete..."
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