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A way to model politics as self-interested players optimizing strategies rather than as moral good and evil.
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game theory analysis
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Key Notes
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Reasoning from the incentives of rational actors to explain why they might produce a seemingly irrational trap.
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Jiang's label for reasoning through possible actors, motives, opportunities, and payoffs when direct evidence is limited.
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Jiang's method of asking capability, beneficiary, and secrecy questions to infer hidden actors.
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"become Mujahideen to fight the Soviets and so the CIA financed all this who do you think is Satoshi Nakamoto well I mean they..."
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"game theory analysis, you look at all possibilities, you end up with a deep state, the American deep state. You end up with the..."
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"...think it makes much more sense. So I've been using this analysis, game theory analysis, to understand geopolitics."
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"...or not this prediction holds out. But again, this is game theory analysis to geopolitics, where before it's like, okay, it's just oil. No,..."
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"...you said um what i've been doing is doing some game theory analysis and having watched your show i'm surprised by how my game..."
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"just use game theory to analyze why nation states do what they do and i test these theories by making predictions that validate these..."
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"Yeah, so I use game theory analysis. In order to make predictions. So I'm looking at the different actors in the region, Israel, Saudi..."
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"...great classical works of human literature. And I'll be teaching game theory analysis so that you can learn how to see the world, how..."
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"...the ideas behind this model? Okay? So we talk about game theory analysis a lot. All right? And the idea of game theory analysis..."
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"...provide evidence that this is true. Okay? The first is historical analysis. Historical analysis means that are there historical examples like this? Okay? Are..."
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"All right? So, we'll first do historical analysis to find historical analogs, examples, sort of similar to this. And then we'll look at game..."
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"...die? Okay, so when you do history or when you do analysis about current events, you're always going to encounter three major problems, okay?..."
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This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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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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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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