Glossary
Money placed into financial or real-estate returns rather than productive work, treated here as rent-seeking behavior.
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Speculation
Money placed into financial or real-estate returns rather than productive work, treated here as rent-seeking behavior.
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Jiang claims that his own communication style can produce simplification and therefore requires explicit caveats that the material is provisional intellectual speculation.
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Jiang speculates that Dido may be based on someone Virgil knew and rejected him, leading Virgil to condemn her unfairly.
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He explicitly warns that the model is theory and intellectual speculation, not prophecy; the point is to improve reasoning and stay open to different outcomes.
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diagnosis
A finance-centered America becomes speculative and gambling-oriented, leading to the 2008 Great Financial Crisis.
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Jiang says Homer remains mysterious: scholars disagree about whether Homer was one person or many, Greeks called Homer the teacher and father of their civilization, and Jiang will speculate about how one human mind built an entire universe of real people.
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A theory or narrative approaches truth, for Jiang, when it connects past events into a coherent story, explains the present world, and makes future predictions, though successful prediction still does not prove causation.
model
He frames this lecture as explicitly speculative and conspiracy-theory-adjacent, asking listeners to doubt him while testing whether the model connects past, present, and future.
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Jiang cautions that he is not part of a secret society and is speculating about how they might work.
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"After I posted my class from last Thursday, my friend as well as teacher, David Bromwich, sent me an email. And what we're going..."
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"...confident, they don't really remember that a lot of this is speculation and oversimplification for the sake of clarity. So it's very important for..."
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"Virgil knows, but knowing that, we can also make the assumption that Virgil pursued Dido, fell in love with Dido, and Dido rejected him,..."
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"...is all theory. Okay? This is a class focused on intellectual speculation. It's meant to be fun. It's meant to to make us more..."
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"But there are inherent instability in this system, okay? And we will discuss all this instability throughout the semester. But for the sake of..."
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"Okay? All right. So any questions before I move on about this? Okay. Now what I want to discuss is, okay, how did Homer..."
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"so we come to the end of the course and all roads lead to jerusalem so um we're gonna take everything we've learned so..."
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"and the most um important is predicts the future from this narrative we should be able to make certain predictions about how events shall..."
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"...how we got to where we are and again this is speculation some will call this conspiracy theory and this is just meant to..."
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"Okay? So, guys, I'm not part of a secret society. I'm just making this up. Okay? I'm just showing you how they might work...."
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"They're all psychopaths, basically, okay? So in real life, in a game, it's a person with multiple personalities that wins out. The problem, though,..."
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"...but again okay it's what's really important is this is all speculation and it's really important for you to doubt and question me because..."
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