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The testable implications embedded in a speculative hypothesis, used to judge whether the model is correct.
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prediction model
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...about. So, I make these predictions in order to validate my prediction model. But just because these predictions don't work. Turn out to be..."
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model
He explicitly marks the Putin explanation as a speculative hypothesis, not certain knowledge, and says its value lies in the predictions it generates.
prediction
He gives three predictions for testing the hypothesis: the war shifts to Odessa, Russia and China fall out, and Russia comes to Iran's aid.
model
Jiang argues historical models contain embedded values and assumptions, and those hidden assumptions generate the predictions a model will make.
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"...we can get all three things together, we can make the prediction model, based on those values and assumptions, to then get all the..."
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"How is it that this nobody, this man who came from a lower middle class family in St. Petersburg, and he was an unknown..."
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"...is that with any hypothesis, there is embedded in it a prediction model. So I'm going to explain to you the hypothesis. And then..."
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"The hypothesis is that during the time of Stalin, a secret nexus of power between the Orthodox Church and the KGB came into being..."
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"That's where the final battle between NATO and Russia will take place. Turkey will be brought into this war. Once Turkey enters this war,..."
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"Eventually, they'll be falling out, okay? And we'll see this happen very quickly. And the third prediction is that Russia will defend Iran. It..."
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"...about. So, I make these predictions in order to validate my prediction model. But just because these predictions don't work. Turn out to be..."
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"...me to see if I actually have prophetic powers, if my prediction models actually do work. And if they work out, then you should..."
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"...and apply it to the future and see um if our prediction models hold up against reality um so i've been doing this for..."
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"...out how the world works so i'm trying to create this prediction model if this prediction model works out if my predictions worked out..."
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"...we have to take a very skeptical attitude. We have this prediction model. We're gonna use it, we're gonna apply it to"
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Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable method, then uses it to argue that Soleimani's killing made a U.S.-Iran war structurally inevitable, that eschatology is not prophecy but a strategic plan, that Odessa is...
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