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9 timestamped hits 3 source readings 4 extracted notes Aliases: timelines

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Timeline

Jiang closes by predicting that within the next year or two the United States will send ground troops if it wants to win or continue the war.

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Prediction made on 2026-03-10 for the next year or two.

prediction

Jiang closes by predicting that within the next year or two the United States will send ground troops if it wants to win or continue the war.

Future project timeline stated on 2024-06-13.

prediction

Jiang says constructing a valid psychohistory AI would require at least 50 to 100 years because the model must be repeatedly tested against predictions.

Project timeline and risk stated on 2024-06-13.

prediction

He warns that the project is conjectural, would take 50 to 100 years, and would face opposition from historians and elites.

Long-term forecast stated on 2024-04-24.

prediction

Jiang says the decline of the American empire would take decades, possibly centuries, rather than happening instantly.

Timestamped Evidence

Control Beats Dominance

2026-03-10, day precision · Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation

Transcript

"Okay? Again, the three big predictions I make, and we'll know in the next year or two if these three things happen or not,..."

The Final Days of the U.S. Empire

2026-04-21, day precision · The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang

Transcript

"Do you have a timeline on that? So, you know, I was before this Iranian war, I was just worried about the world stop..."

Collapse Is Sudden

2025-08-22, day precision · Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse

Transcript

"...is the timing. Okay? So, if you actually look at society's timeline, it goes like this. Okay? There's a steep rise. The decline is..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Control Beats Dominance

2026-03-10, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · claims

Reading

The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...

Military Dominance Is Not Victory

2024-04-24, day precision · claims

Reading

Iran's missile strike is read not as a failed attack, but as a demonstration of asymmetrical strategy: choose the battlefield, satisfy four goals at once, and make the dominant power fight on terms it...

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