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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yeah, so it's a long story, but, you know, when I was growing up in Toronto, I was an immigrant child in Toronto. I..."
Jiang says that as a bullied immigrant child in Toronto he retreated into libraries and science fiction, especially Isaac Asimov, and that this early reading shaped his interest in psychohistory.
Jiang says empathy comes from wisdom and from inhabiting many perspectives, which for him was deepened by reading widely after an alienated childhood.
"Yeah, so it's a long story, but, you know, when I was growing up in Toronto, I was an immigrant child in Toronto. I..."
"Empathy, right? Empathy, because, because, like, when you shout at someone, and then you go, um, away, you're able to remember what you did,..."
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.
The title promises Iran war prediction, but the interview's real shape is stranger.
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