Topic brief

6 timestamped hits 5 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-04-09, day precision Aliases: human-behaviors

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Human Behavior

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...I don't use math. It's impossible. It's impossible to model random human behavior. It's just impossible."

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Topic Scope And Freshness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...I don't use math. It's impossible. It's impossible to model random human behavior. It's just impossible."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: History As River, Prophecy As Plan (2026-04-09, day precision).

Most connected source readings: History As River, Prophecy As Plan; The Safe Place Is Not A Place; The Dating Game That Eats Civilization.

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Key Notes

Methodological self-description stated on 2025-12-31.

model

Jiang says he makes geopolitical predictions as a way to test whether his understanding of history and the ethical models behind human behavior are actually correct.

Timestamped Evidence

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future)

Transcript

"...a new science called psychohistory. Which is to mathematically map out human behavior over the course of a million years. If you do that,..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

History As River, Prophecy As Plan

2026-04-09, day precision · alias-match

Reading

The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...

The Dating Game That Eats Civilization

2026-01-06, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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.

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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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