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He frames the draft order in brutal utilitarian terms: if you make yourself useful the state preserves you, and if you do not it sacrifices you.
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Jiang says modern education has trained students in utility, obedience, and compliance, but not in love.
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Jiang says British utility-first philosophy aligns with Frankist materialism by rejecting biblical and first-principle moral limits.
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He says Mao’s barrel-of-a-gun formula and Deng’s black-cat/white-cat formula are utilitarian and therefore inadequate for understanding politics and war.
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He frames the unresolved question around AI as simple utility: it can make impressive media outputs, but Jiang sees no demonstrated way it improves underlying economic productivity.
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"to play video games spend all their money on only fans and gamble everything on bitcoin okay and they don't really know anything useful..."
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"Okay, that's my advice. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but that's the world we live in, okay? All right. John Zack says, thank..."
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"right So the first difference is utility versus character Ag ain I assume that most of you are Chinese or have a Chinese background..."
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"lot if it 's black or white And again I 'll show you why that 's the case l ater on Okay So for..."
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"...a world of anti -love because you've received an education in utility, right? Obedience, compliance. But what you have not received is an education..."
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"...your mind, you think that what is right is one of utility and one of compliance. If Papalus, my best friend, died, then I..."
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"...We should just focus on first principles and just focus on utility. Does it bring benefit to people? And this is the very basis..."
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"Yeah, I mean, ChatGPT, AI, it will just degrade over time. And, and so, like, the big question is, like, no one's figured out..."
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"They are totally not in this formula of comparing utility and price. No. They must be remembered. Now, coming back to your question, Piers,..."
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"...just had the illusion of nationalism previously, which was just a utility of building an army under the guise of religion or, or, you..."
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"...it is just like America, just becoming a tool and a utility for greater financial power. Um, and that greater financial power is not..."
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"...Don't think about God. Just focus on material wealth. Jeremy Bentham, utility is everything, okay? How do we know what's good, what's right, if..."
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A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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