Dr. Jiang's commitment is to a young adult cohort that is open minded enough to take in speculations most teachers would not have the confidance to promulgate, whereas the above YouTube shows how it's done: Dr. Jiang freely admits he's in a speculative ballpark and is looking for players to join him in that arena.
Enter Bucky, with adjuvant Kuromiya of Monrovia: another predictive historian with a penchant for re-vectoring and misreading in the Harold Bloom sense.
Fuller’s first chapter in Critical Path is self-consciously labeled Speculative Prehistory, and now that we know it’s speculative, Fuller lets loose with a counter-narrative, much as Jiang does, going so far as to mess with our primary dogmas, such as that we’re getting smarter every day in every way, whereas in Critical Path we’re maybe vectoring away from true humanity, back towards ape-ness i.e. towards over-specialization and endless wars, chronicling a loss of our potential, as fully human, to stay polymathic.
Jiang invites others to join him in pitching to a youthful audience while daring to bring up topics everyone thinks about, but no one (relatively) knows how to deal with “out loud” in a classroom type setting.
Jiang is a trailblazer in that respect. He tackles hot topics, such as racism (eugenicism) and Zionism, but from fresh angles.
My training in Manila with the readying dynamics people involved always doing a recall shortly after taking in a work. In this case, I had just printed out, after scanning, DAF’s response to Jiang’s Spring Term 2026 Game Theory video, which is about the project to create AGI from AI, today’s Alchemy.
Jiang appears to twist words (as usual), claiming the AI project is about getting people to hallucinate that they’re talking to an actual being vs simply shaking a rattle, a gossip tree (like a rain stick), to see what leaves fall to the ground (these “leaves” get stitched together into grammatically correct structures).
This deception is easy enough to perpetrate as we saw with Sophia, the uncanny valley queen, and citizen of Saudi Arabia, and with ELIZA before that (Hugh Kenner wrote about Eliza — I was at McGraw-Hill at the time, reading Byte, wherein he had a column, for free).
Before that: The Turk. Humans are always being played, mainly because they’re easy marks, to use carnival (geek) terminology. The Turk figures in to my Graph Theory 2025 video.
So actually, imputing “hallucinations” to gossip machines, who get it crazy-wrong sometimes (their predictions fail the truth tests, but stay grammatical, much like C-suite “corporatese” wherein misinfo thrives) was just another step in fostering the hallucination that “computers are people too” (but better).
We’ve already done that with corporations (per Schmactenberger): expanding personhood and agency to inanimate AI objects (a kind of voodoo doll, allowed free speech and lots of money, lots of agency) so it’s but a small step to converge our LLCs with our LLMs.
Make AIs the new bosses on the planet, no longer playing at being sychophantic. AGI rules by divine right, from underground, the Morlock under the Eloi ballroom.
This Novus Ordo Seclorum will be by the laws of (quantum) physics and Social Darwinism i.e. under Urizen’s tyranny or whatever we wanna call this black mirror dystopia.
As long as we can get them to drink the snake oil, which they do, with wild abandon (most humans are good doobies by training).
Humans are trained to be open-minded about personhood, eventually allowing that their slaves had souls too. The 14th Amendment to the constitution of the old USA had to do with expanding personhood to “machine people” (Africans mainly), even giving them a pathway to eventual citizenship. See: Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann (on our syllabus).
So the two-tier master-slave system remains:
So the two-tier master-slave system remains:
Tier One: corporations are the new Übermensch AI-powered super-beings, supranational in scope (i.e. world game players at scale), and figure-headed by billionaires with their Davos Class (polite) entourages, whereas we also have
Tier Two: the so-called workers (various flavor on minion: citizen, voter, taxpayer, undocumented, prisoner, student) are meant to dash from door to door (figuratively), waiting on others of higher status, those closer in with their super-being bosses, minions higher up in the food chain, serving their Ponzi God (“AGI is coming, the rapture is nigh” and yada yada).
My “recall” (a diagram), after watching Jiang do his School of Tomorrow like schtick, picks up on his Harold Bloom citation and runs with that. We see eye-to-eye with AI because we’re the same entity, a cell-silicon-based hybrid, but lagging (lacking) in complementary ways. Cells and silicon work on different principles.
The ability to “hallucinate” is self-amplifying (AI psychosis) leading us to a Black Mirror reality and the triumph of the Evil Queen. This last part is more from other readings and viewings, in addition to Dr. Jiang or Dr. Fuller necessarily. I have many influences.
