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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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Foundation
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...was a huge fan of Isaac Asimov and I loved the Foundation series. And so so that always stuck with me. And I and..."
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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 his geopolitical videos began a couple of years before the interview as a playful test of whether historical patterns could be deciphered and used to predict events such as Iran, American civil war, and Trump's 2024 victory.
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Jiang says the core Foundation insight that stayed with him is that large historical patterns can be modeled and used to predict crisis points and their likely resolutions at the macro level.
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"...was a huge fan of Isaac Asimov and I loved the Foundation series. And so so that always stuck with me. And I and..."
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"You know, the Foundation series was this vast, expanding universe. And the main argument is that if you study, if you take, like, micro..."
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"Specifically, it's given me an opportunity to think about the possibilities of history. And over the course of teaching this course, I've decided that..."
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"...lot of books. And one of my favorite series was the Foundation series. And in it, Isaac Asimov proposed the idea of psychohistory, which..."
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"...but you can have a look at it. And in the Foundation books, he introduces the idea of psychohistory. And so, this book is..."
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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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Jiang explains the channel from the inside: a teacher leaving Beijing, watching Iran and Israel move toward world war, and trying to turn a student review archive into a new history that can explain...
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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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