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The large-group social environment that determines outcomes more strongly than individual effort in Jiang's game-theory frame.
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The large-group social environment that determines outcomes more strongly than individual effort in Jiang's game-theory frame.
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The Divine Comedy is structured as Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise, with mathematical symmetry and a solar-system-like paradise ending in the Imperium where God is.
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He states the game-theory principle that individuals matter less than group structure; poor children's outcomes cannot be changed without changing the structure around them.
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He defines paradox as a truth that seems like a contradiction and structure as the mathematical precision that turns The Divine Comedy into an intellectual jigsaw puzzle.
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He says voters are rejecting secular liberalism because people seek structure, meaning, power, purpose, and the capacity to love, create, learn, and grow.
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"...looking at throughout this book. So let me talk about the structure of La Commedia. There are three distinct parts. First is Inferno. Second..."
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"The first is what we call structure. The second is paradox. So imagine La Commedia as not just epic poetry, but as a very..."
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"...it's structured like a solar system. Okay? So that's the very structure of the Divine Comedy. And as you can see, it's very mathematical...."
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"...of people like poor kids unless you look at the overall structure in which they live."
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"...He will use this all the time. And the other is structure. Okay? The divine comedy, it is mathematically precise. It is brilliant. It..."
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"...strive for is not a abstract, liberal idea. We strive for structure, meaning, and power. And purpose in our lives, okay? What we really..."
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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