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He argues that history has a directional bias toward power, which is why figures like Zuckerberg, Jobs, and Ellison become more successful than teachers oriented toward educating people.
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Steve Jobs
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "amnestic to whether your intention is to access it for the benefit of mankind or to exit it when the intention will dominate the..."
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Jiang uses Steve Jobs, movies, and Donald Trump as examples of narrative or image systems that make people participate in a constructed reality.
diagnosis
Jiang says Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg were important public faces because civilian trust was needed to popularize military-origin technologies that would otherwise have been rejected.
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"amnestic to whether your intention is to access it for the benefit of mankind or to exit it when the intention will dominate the..."
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"...power. So people who actually agree, like, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, they'll be much more successful than people like me,..."
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"...it's free and that's why it was important really important for Steve Jobs Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg these guys become the face of the..."
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"...So the first example let's look at is the idea of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a famous writer. Steve Jobs was an entrepreneur,..."
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"Okay? So it's about technology, but it's also about lifestyle. It's also about attitude. And that's why we are all using Apple computers today,..."
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"...geniuses, but front people. Sam Altman didn't invent ChatGPT or LLMs. Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPhone. Do you think the government invented software..."
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"...to the public, you go make the billions of dollars. So Steve Jobs partnered with Steve Wozniak. And at that time, people don't know..."
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"...giving this stuff for free to guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? And the answer is because they wanted to create a civilian..."
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"...than us. In fact, I don't think that that's smart, okay? Steve Jobs is a smart guy. I will say Steve Jobs is a..."
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"...no way I'm gonna touch this computer. But it's coming from Steve Jobs. That's different, right? Oh, Steve Jobs, he's a visionary. He's messianic...."
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"...understand why Amazon, Google, and Apple are successful, okay? Apple has Steve Jobs. Google controls the world's search. Amazon controls, buying things, right? What..."
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"...school, this kid is going to get into Yale, Harvard, become Steve Jobs, and win a Nobel Prize. There's this real myth and mentality..."
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