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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 transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...because every, um... Uh -huh....understand of history, it is really an analytical model. Right? It's an understanding of how the world works. There are..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...because every, um... Uh -huh....understand of history, it is really an analytical model. Right? It's an understanding of how the world works. There are..."
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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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A historical explanation built from assumptions about values and social behavior that can be extended forward.
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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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Jiang says predictions matter because they validate and test the analytical model in your head, letting you refine it over time.
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"...did, if you did these three things, now you have this analytical model in your brain to work with when you make these predictions,..."
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"...forward you can extrapolate them into the future and so your analytical model becomes your predictive model and so what this means is that..."
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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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"...because every, um... Uh -huh....understand of history, it is really an analytical model. Right? It's an understanding of how the world works. There are..."
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"...that whenever a historian explains the past they're working within a analytical model they make sure assumptions about the world so the most basic..."
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"...their own models in order to validate and refine their own analytical models and so what i've done is that in the past two..."
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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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"...conception of history, there are values and assumptions embedded in that analytical model. If we understand the values and assumptions, we can then make..."
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"...okay how uh excuse me how okay um so if my analytical model is correct then the world is headed towards war chaos collapse..."
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable method, then uses it to argue that Soleimani's killing made a U.S.-Iran war structurally inevitable, that eschatology is not prophecy but a strategic plan, that Odessa is...
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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