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Jiang partially concedes that point by saying the universe has rules and limits, so free will operates inside boundaries rather than as absolute power.
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Rules
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Jiang says society functions through compliance with arbitrary rules and taboos that are ultimately illusions rather than intrinsic realities.
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His game-theory conclusion is that East Asian men lose because they obey the host society's rules, while other groups may win by refusing those rules.
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The casino analogy defines the host country's game as structurally tilted: if the game were fair, the house would not invite outsiders to play it.
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He predicts future violent conflicts between demographic groups because immigration is a new, historically contingent game that cannot remain sustainable once groups fight to set the rules.
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He says a game is constructed when players agree on its rules and incentives; an outsider who tries to build a different game loses legitimacy when players feel control slipping away.
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Game theory is defined as the idea that human action operates within games whose rules must be understood before behavior makes sense.
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He argues animals live in heavily ritualized, rule-based worlds rather than chaotic ones.
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"understand there are rules to the universe okay for example we don't have the power to like blow up the entire universe you understand..."
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"...society to function is the fact that you comply to the rules, which are illusions. So the point of school, the point of media,..."
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"...jobs. But now two things have happened, because they followed the rules, because they did everything right. They didn't commit any crime, they're not..."
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"They're not CEOs. The other thing is that, their problem's finding a very good mate, okay? It's easy for them to find someone off..."
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"...you to play his game don't agree to play by the rules because the game is set up so that you will lose otherwise..."
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"...different demographic groups because each group is trying to set the rules of the game. Because whoever sets the rules of the game will..."
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"...game is constructed when all the different players agree on the rules and the incentives of the game. All right? I was an outsider...."
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"...first have to figure out how the game works what the rules of"
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"...game, okay? And whenever there's a game, there has to be rules that underpin this game. And the rule, the first rule of this..."
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"...important idea is that animals live in a heavily ritualized and rules based world. It doesn't make sense guys. We think of animals as..."
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"...often like to play with each other so there's lots of rules there's lots of rituals in this rat society but that's out in..."
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