For Jiang's Dante, the worst sin is treachery that pressures other people into treachery and thereby drives them away from God.
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Social trust
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "The million people die. It's not a big deal. They lose their bodies to come back later on, but there's a thousand people who,..."
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He defines synchronicity as social willingness to follow rules, using traffic, subway seats, and public trash as examples of cohesion and trust.
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"The million people die. It's not a big deal. They lose their bodies to come back later on, but there's a thousand people who,..."
"We will want to kill, okay? And so, in other words, one idea in this AI model is that there is a fundamental underlying..."
"For children? For pregnant women? Okay? When you go to the park, do people actually pick up garbage and throw it in the garbage..."
"...So, what mattered back then was about social cohesion, social capital, social trust. And now what matters is just numbers. How much does this..."
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