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Jiang's model says declining empires start overseas wars that do not benefit them long term because structural forces and hubris drive them.
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Macro history
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Jiang says predictive history requires a macro picture of human history, from the Ice Age through Pax Americana, rather than narrow specialization in one period.
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Jiang says the core Foundation insight that stayed with him is that large historical patterns can be modeled and used to predict crisis points and their likely resolutions at the macro level.
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"...is that it's much more structural. That if you study. History, macro history, we have seen this pattern before. Whereas an empire declines, it..."
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"Well, you would also need a complete view of history. So rather than me specializing in a particular area of history, for example, the..."
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"You know, the Foundation series was this vast, expanding universe. And the main argument is that if you study, if you take, like, micro..."
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"Right. So again, I look at macro history. And the reality is that America is addicted to the petrodollar. It's addicted to money. Printing...."
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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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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