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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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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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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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Jiang says Isaac Asimov expanded his macro imagination, Ayn Rand once appealed to his self-conception as a persecuted genius, and X-Men mattered because its moral world was more ambiguous than superhero binaries.
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Alexander says Asimov's psychohistory takes predictive reasoning too far because one cannot assume the past simply repeats itself, even though historical study still lets us learn from earlier societies such as fifth-century Athens.
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"...in the first days, I was a huge fan of Isaac Asimov. Um, because I was really into science fiction. And I just loved..."
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"So, so I, I been through, uh, different phases. Um, I was, I was also a really avid comic book fan. Okay, so I,..."
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"...more i suppose so i mean uh um i i think asimov if i have to be frank took it much too far i..."
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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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"...fiction. I love science fiction. I read a lot of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury."
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"...just because growing up, I was a huge fan of Isaac Asimov and I loved the Foundation series. And so so that always stuck..."
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"...different aspects of what it means to be human, especially Isaac Asimov, you know, his foundation series, his robot series, his empire series. He..."
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"...fan of science fiction. So my favorite, of course, was Isaac Asimov, The Psychohistory, but I also read, you know, Ray Bradbury, and I..."
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"...history. I was a major fan of the Foundation series by Asimov. Like, I read all his books. And there were like dozens and..."
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"...is predictive history based on or related in concept to isaac asimov's idea of psycho history from his foundation"
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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The title promises Iran war prediction, but the interview's real shape is stranger.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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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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