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A theory or hypothesis for understanding the world that must be tested by predictions and revised if those predictions fail.
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analytical model
A theory or hypothesis for understanding the world that must be tested by predictions and revised if those predictions fail.
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Glossary
A way to understand the world that must both explain motivations and behavior and predict future events.
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A testable account of how the world works, built to generate predictions and then be checked against reality.
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Jiang says an analytical model is useful only if it can explain behavior and predict future events; this lecture tests the father-son model by applying it to Alexander the Great.
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Jiang introduces the methodological reason for the exercise: build an analytical model of how the world works, make predictions, and test them against reality.
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Jiang defines critical thinking as building analytical models, testing them against reality, and refining them based on what reality shows.
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"...process and we're both trying to develop theories and hypotheses and analytical models to better understand the world. So it's a process and there..."
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"...okay? But if you think about it, this is also a analytical model, okay? It's a way to understand the world around us. And..."
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"...is this. We try to think. We have to build an analytical model. Right? Of how the world works. And the only way we..."
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"...how we try to think critically about the world. By building analytical models that we can then test against reality and then based on..."
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"...understand why this is happening. We will try to formulate an analytical model of geopolitics. Okay? An analytical model. We will then use this..."
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"...are we doing this? Because if we're able to have an analytical model that makes correct predictions, then we can take all this and..."
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"...to understand why this is happening. We'll try to formulate an analytical model of geopolitics. Okay. An analytical model. We will then use this..."
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"...so the quick answer to this is, I use a new analytical model called game theory. And game theory is something that I will..."
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"...do so, I'm going to introduce to you today a new analytical model called game theory. Okay? The idea of game theory is this...."
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"...These are the three predictions we can make based on this analytical model, okay? And it turns out, these three predictions basically capture the..."
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"...is basically doing a self -AI. Right? Where I have an analytical model and I have a prediction. But guess what, guys? We won't..."
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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A source-grounded reading of Alexander as the inheriting son: expansionist, obedience-hungry, and unable to hear correction except as betrayal.
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A dated May 2024 election model: Biden's 2020 coalition weakens, the suburbs become the hinge, and Trump can win by turning Nikki Haley from enemy into evidence that he has changed.
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