Jiang says the space race, AI, and alien-invasion narratives are elite lies or illusions, and he predicts human society will collapse before it has the time and resources to conquer the moon or reach Mars.
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Space race
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"...the resources to go conquer the moon, okay? I think the space race, it's all just, you know, an illusion. Space race, AI, alien..."
"I watched a lot of science fiction, like Star Trek, okay? I love that. So I love it if we could get to the..."
"...account for drastically different inputs today? AI labor displacement, climate change, space race, et cetera, in your model. What's your confidence that our current..."
"...this great unifying, galvanizing event for the American population, how the space race was also a great unifying event for the American people as..."
"...vietnam that served no strategic purpose um then you had the space race where america was spending billions of dollars to send a man..."
"...pay for. For example, the war in Vietnam. For example, a space race. For example, something called the Great Society, okay? They're just spending..."
"...also bankrupting America as well. America had spent billions on the space race as well, sending a man to the moon. So by 1971,..."
"...Okay? The Russians. We have to defeat the Russians in the space race. Then they'll be like, you know what? Terrorists. Okay? 9 -11...."
"...problem is that the Soviets were destroying the Americans in the space race. The Soviets were the first to send an animal to space...."
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