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The mathematical modeling of historical movement; the transcript renders the name as 'Clio Dynamics'.
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cliodynamics
The mathematical modeling of historical movement; the transcript renders the name as 'Clio Dynamics'.
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He presents cliodynamics as an attempt to turn history into a mathematical model and cites elite overproduction as a pattern explaining social collapse.
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He proposes using AI to go beyond cliodynamics by creating real psychohistory: a system able to analyze the past and predict the future.
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"Okay? So, this is what he called psychohistory. And it's a science fiction concept. And a lot of people have been trying to make..."
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"And it's a really interesting idea. Is the reason why societies collapse in the end. Is you have too many elites. All right? So,..."
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"Because he failed the Kejiu. Okay? So, that's the idea of the overproduction of the elite. And he discovered this principle using mathematically modeling..."
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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