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Jiang says Predictive History is meant to reinterpret history so it produces a coherent story of humanity, explains the present, and helps predict the future.
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Jiang says his approach to history came through thinking about artificial intelligence and feedback loops, where outcomes can be used to infer the forces producing them.
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A historical model should also be predictive, because future outcomes help validate, negate, or refine the model.
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"And then, um, a couple months ago, my, my channel blew up. Um, I'm, I'm about over 600, 600,000 subscribers now on YouTube. So,..."
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"project, but my project is to reimagine history as a tool for us to better understand humanity, um, as well as to predict the..."
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"Right, okay. Um, that's a great question. And my answer is going to be long -winded, so I apologize in advance. But, um... Before..."
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"Um, and that's how, how artificial intelligence works. So, um, so my great insight is, well, we, we, we do the same thing with..."
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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