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Jiang's universal law of game theory is mass times energy times coordination; coordination is four times more important than mass and energy twice as important as mass.
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Jiang's universal law of game theory is mass times energy times coordination; coordination is four times more important than mass and energy twice as important as mass.
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An empire has three apparent advantages: mass, organization, and death, where death means enough resources and people to absorb repeated military losses.
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The universal law of game theory is presented as mass times energy times coordination, with winners having the right combination of people, motivation, and ability to work together.
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Coordination is the most important factor in the formula and is weighted at least three times as much as mass; energy is second and is weighted about twice as much as mass.
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Mass should be measured not only as population but as cohesion: how much people like each other and will work together.
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An empire has mass, organization, and strategic depth; a borderland lacks those but has compensating advantages that make interaction explosive.
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"...this. Whoever wins a game is able to do this, okay? Mass times energy times coordination, okay? So these are the three things you..."
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"So mass is just the number of people involved on the team, okay? Energy is just how much energy is involved in the game...."
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"And then energy is twice as important as, you know, mass, all right? So let me give you an example. Let's just say that..."
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"...three major advantages to an empire. All right? The first is mass. This just means that they have a lot of people. Okay? They..."
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"Organization just means a hierarchy of bureaucracy and elite that allows you to organize your resources and your people in order to generate wealth,..."
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"...win the game they win because of this formula which is mass times energy times coronation. All right so mass is just a number..."
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"...factor and it's weighted at least three times as much as mass. Then you can out you have energy and energy is second is..."
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"And what will happen for this inaction is the energy of the empire will start to transfer to the borderlands. And the borderlands itself..."
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"...an empire, an empire usually has three major advantages. They are mass, organization, and death. Okay? Some historians use the word strategic death. Okay?..."
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"...Iraq, where we were assured that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. That's true. And we went to war. It cost enormous amount..."
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"...Hussein is a terrible person. And if he gets weapons of mass destruction, it's going to be the end. Gaddafi is a madman. He's..."
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"...become one with them. And then when, when his, when his mass and your mass are one, they come practically together. Then with very..."
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Jiang makes the Iran war a test of religious prediction: if Al-Aqsa survives and peace arrives, his model fails.
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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
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