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People can be rational once the true game is identified; irrational-looking dating behavior follows status-maximizing incentives.
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Rationality
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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He presents his wife as central to his work because she helps him understand ordinary people's thinking, counterbalancing his rational and narrow student-formed worldview.
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Jiang argues that political and geopolitical outcomes cannot be reduced to rational monetary calculus because ego, factional rivalry, and short-term interests keep distorting events.
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Alexander says Europe's current leadership class is detached from reality, trapped in a mutually reinforcing bubble, and therefore cannot be expected to respond rationally to the material limits on war with Russia.
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Alexander says Gerhard Schroeder's testimony in the Mecklenburg Nord Stream investigation showed sanity and rationality in contrast to other participants, who by his account sounded hysterical and ridiculous.
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Jiang says people are taught that policymaking is driven by logic, debate, and rational economic calculation, but current realities like inequality, destructive immigration policy, and endless wars show that this public explanation is false.
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"The most important person in my life, of course, is my wife. She completes me. We have two children together. We're hoping to have..."
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"That's why we're having so many children because we have so many books to write. But I mean, I, you know, I was a..."
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"Yeah, no, it's been a great conversation. I've learned a lot. It's my special reason in economics or finance. So just having a chance..."
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"Because ultimately, at the end of the day, only a few people can win out. Not everyone can win out. That's point number two...."
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"We know what the players are. The players are doing stupid things. The rules, we know, okay? But incentives is something that we have..."
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"Number one, she may be the ugliest woman in the world, but she's still like, you know what? It's still my choice whether or..."
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"the people hate the leaders you know something um in any rational world I would completely agree with you listen to the people who..."
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"...a lot of indications about what happened and the sanity and rationality of schroeder as compared with everyone else i think what everyone's showing..."
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"that one thing that people understand is that it's humans who drive history but knowing that it's only a certain human who drive history..."
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"fact that you have all these wars overseas, clearly, decision making is not driven by a rational perspective. And so what I'm trying to..."
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"...must therefore be comprised of reason and light of reason and rationality why is Dante's work why does Dante's work emphasize intuition and imagination..."
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"...this vow but used sort of zero uh circumstance circumspect and rationality to look back and realize that it's wrong and maybe he's just..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
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This interview starts with a forecasting method and quickly turns into a map of imperial decline.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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