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Jiang explicitly pauses to build a counterfactual comparison between the Trump coalition one would expect and the one now fracturing around the Epstein files.
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Jiang uses three examples — paying a prostitute, writing lifelong love letters to a celebrity, and buying an AI wife — as a classroom test for ranking lust by Dante's standards.
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Jiang introduces a hypothetical scenario in which Piccarda's brother vows to give her as a bride after a military victory, setting up a clash between two vows to God rather than asserting this exact sequence as settled history.
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Jiang turns Piccarda's dilemma into a direct clash of vows by having her threaten suicide rather than break her vow to God while her brother insists that his victory in battle binds him to give her to his friend.
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Jiang explicitly asks the class to suspend immediate moral refusal and instead use imagination and intuition to see how the conflict would actually unfold.
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Jiang pushes the thought experiment onward by asking what the ally will do once he sees the marriage alliance is secured through family terror rather than ordinary consent.
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Jiang's thought experiment makes the redemptive problem concrete by imagining a child who kills a dog to discover whether her parents love her more than the animal.
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Jiang refuses to let the discussion become a generic defense of therapy and instead asks what outsourcing the response to a therapist or police would mean inside the emotional logic of the thought experiment.
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Another student clarifies that Jiang's point is not about the most rational policy but about Eve's internal logic: any outside corrective action counts to her as proof that she is not loved.
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"he depicts lust but normally we depict lust as maybe uh the most common example is you really like like a woman and you..."
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"a million dollars second is um you fall in love with a beautiful actress okay like who knows I like like just anyone okay..."
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"us to use our imagination or intuition to figure out what the proper choice would have been all right so so let me explain..."
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"to conquer Italy together and they're in a battle okay and before this battle the brother says to the friend you know the Picardy..."
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"made a vow to God I swore to God to God right so here we have Picarda saying you know what I am on..."
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"is the proper or right choice okay so here Picarda is like you know what if you come and get me I'm"
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"will um okay okay i understand but like let's just play this game okay let's just first use our imagination and play out this..."
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"okay so this is hard okay but i want you guys to imagine this it's really hard but what's happened is the brother says..."
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"you're that friend it's very hard to go through the marriage right"
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"...sacrifice of Jesus, okay? So I'm going to give you a thought experiment. The thought experiment is this. You are a mother or a..."
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"Now, as the parent, you're completely screwed, okay? Because let's think about this. What do you do? You told Eve you love them both...."
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"Okay. You send... You send Eve to therapy. Okay. What does the therapist tell Eve?"
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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