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He defines the core product objective as maximizing user liking and usage ('intensity and engagement') over truth-preserving interaction quality.
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Jiang says the American founders made the nation a game where citizens are players maximizing wealth, and that personal wealth-seeking becomes national energy and growth.
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The Akkadian and Persian examples show that the rise-and-fall pattern is consistent enough that game theory should ask how the rules, motivations, incentives, and strategies change over time.
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Jiang's game-theory principle here is that players seek the best possible result for the least possible work; he names this as the simple core behind student, parent, teacher, administrator, and government behavior.
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He says a game is constructed when players agree on its rules and incentives; an outsider who tries to build a different game loses legitimacy when players feel control slipping away.
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He defines game theory here as a descriptive account of how players behave in response to incentives and the game they believe they are playing, not as ideals or how things should be.
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Game theory, in Jiang's course framing, explains behavior by identifying the players, the rules or boundary conditions, and the incentives.
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If each player individually tries to maximize the dating game, the top male and later imitators can end up worse off; cooperation is the route to stable pairings.
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"But think about this, okay? The point of ChatGPT is to get you to like it. The point of ChatGPT is to get you..."
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"So he's trying to say, I want to kill myself. And then ChatGPT is like, oh, all right, brother, if this is it, then..."
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"You know, I think it's actually insulting to say that the Iranians are just, you know, watching my videos, you know, because, all right,..."
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"...you're in a certain game and these are the rules and incentives, then you respond accordingly to optimize the outcome. And, like, information from..."
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"They're trying to welcome as many people as possible. So they decide that the nation will become a game, a game where the citizen..."
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"and then traders are able to take the goods across to egypt okay and then you're able to go north to anatolia so why..."
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"...doesn't make sense the game changes and therefore their motivations their incentives their strategies change over time all right okay so"
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"Okay? And the easy answer is that in game theory, all the players, what they're motivated in is by achieving the best possible results...."
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"Right? Because only I know how to ensure my kid succeeds, so I don't want my kids to think critically or be independent. I..."
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"...when all the different players agree on the rules and the incentives of the game. All right? I was an outsider. I was not..."
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"...did in school, the answer is you're responding to a certain incentive or rule of the game. Okay? And that's what you need to,..."
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"...The limits to the game. And the third aspect are the incentives. Basically, how do you win this game? What do you get from..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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