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Asimov's Foundation and psychohistory supply Jiang's long-term ambition: to build intellectual foundations for mathematically modeling the past and present in order to predict the future.
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Asimov's Foundation and psychohistory supply Jiang's long-term ambition: to build intellectual foundations for mathematically modeling the past and present in order to predict the future.
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He says Asimov's Foundation imagines mathematical mapping of human behavior across immense time scales in order to manipulate events toward a better future.
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"...can imagine, I was deeply inspired by the works of Isaac Asimov."
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"...my favorite series was the Foundation series. And in it, Isaac Asimov proposed the idea of psychohistory, which is the idea that we can..."
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"It's terrible, but you can have a look at it. And in the Foundation books, he introduces the idea of psychohistory. And so, this..."
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"...the 1950s, there was an American science fiction writer named Isaac Asimov. And he's probably the most famous science fiction writer. Okay? If you..."
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"...problem is you create another organization. Okay? And in, I think, Asimov's foundation, it's called the second foundation. Okay? And the idea of the..."
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