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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
Jiang says poker and game study taught him that different personalities and circumstances produce different optimal strategies, and that adding psychology to game theory gave him a more realistic picture of the world.
Jiang says outside information often fails to move players because, like poker participants, they remain committed to their own emotional strategy once invested in the game.
"...the world works. And at this time, I started to play poker. I played Texas Hold 'em poker. And what I recognized is that..."
"...thing as, you know, I'm sure you play Texas Hold 'em poker, right? When you're playing a hand, do you really care what others..."
"At that point, you're invested in your own strategy, right? So, first of all, you know, it's absurd that people will think this, and..."
"unexpectedly out of once a poker that trembling i then drew a little closer to my guide but he told me turn around what..."
"...they're all sociopaths you can't actually read them uh they're amazing poker players you can never ever read their minds uh and you can..."
"...Are you still in here, Steve? Steve Brown here. We dealt poker together for many years. Nate, love to see you here. Post -military...."
"...it does work. All right. So there are different types of poker players. And I started to like study different games. I recognize that,..."
"...you send in ground troops, then you are pot -committed. In poker, there's the term pot -committed, right? You're all -in, basically. Once you..."
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
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...
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.
Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable historical method, then uses the interview to argue that Soleimani's assassination made a later U.S.-Iran war structurally legible, that Iran wins by luring America into ground commitment,...
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