definition
He defines game theory analysis as a model without good and evil, only self-interested players trying to optimize winning strategies.
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Self Interest
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model
Jiang says the old multilateral order was always a pretext for European and British free-riding on American power and that every state should now act in open self-interest.
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Jiang says his forecasting method is game theory centered on self-interest rather than ideology.
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Jiang says the revised U.S. strategy abandons ideological talk in favor of naked self-interest and economic competition, effectively imitating China's developmental style while marshaling allied resources against it.
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Jiang treats geopolitical inconsistency not as an anomaly but as the normal result of elite actors repeatedly changing alignments whenever their own interests shift.
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Jiang argues that figures like Epstein are loyal first to themselves rather than to any nation, using intelligence and elite connections mainly to accumulate personal power.
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"...he says in the future America America is going to put self -interest first and uh like above everything else okay and so America..."
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"...played by different players who are trying to maximize their own self -interest. So I don't really look at ideology. I don't really look..."
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"...on ideology. On spreading liberalism and democracy. And now it's purely self interest. Purely economics. So basically doing what China does. But America says..."
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"um, I mean, the elites have, the elites have no loyalty except in themselves, right? They're always playing a double game. So, we see..."
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"but he was definitely a ci operative and he could have been operated for the russians for um the british okay so the way..."
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"Okay? Does this make sense, guys? All right. So now the question then is, okay, how would this AI model work? Or what are..."
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"...for, again, short -term thinking, people looking out for their own self -interest, not their country's interest, not the long -term interests. And so..."
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"...so i think it's that kind of self you know personal self interest and ambition of politicians who don't want to uh step up..."
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"...will act what is what will be in our best national self -interest okay that's number one number two is that it states explicitly..."
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"...what they believe is that we are driven by money or self -interest. We want to make as much money as possible, and that's..."
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"...and so now that the only thing that matters is national self -interest. So America needs to protect its own national self -interest not..."
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"...diplomatic courtesies, dynamic intermarriages, and shifting military alliances based on mutual self -interest. Relying on its military strength, the Khazar kingdom, with its hinterland..."
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Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
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A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: Iran is treated as the forced war of a declining empire, but the larger target is China, whose trade access, savings, and room to maneuver sit...
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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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Jiang treats World War III not as one future declaration but as a chain reaction already set in motion: the rules mask has fallen off the American empire, Iran has become the hinge of...
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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