Glossary
Jiang's Hegelian label for someone who changes the course of history by acting as an instrument of a larger historical force.
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world-historical figure
Jiang's Hegelian label for someone who changes the course of history by acting as an instrument of a larger historical force.
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Glossary
Jiang's Hegelian name for a player who steps into a structured game and changes the course of history.
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definition
Jiang defines Putin as a possible Hegelian world-historical figure and Nietzschean Ubermensch: a man who steps outside history to control and redirect it.
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Game theory cannot simply freeze the future because a new player can emerge, see the contours of the game, manipulate events, and change the course of history for himself and his group.
prediction
Jiang identifies Vladimir Putin as the currently existing world-historical figure or 'ubermutt' who will manipulate the game to achieve his vision and change human history.
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"...control history? Like this. Friedrich Hegel would call Putin the world historical figure. And Friedrich Nietzsche would call Putin the Ubermans. The Superman. The..."
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"...Now, Hegel's name for this person, this player, is the world historical figure. Nietzsche's name for this player is the ubermutt, the superman, the..."
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"They will force the United States and ground troops and invade Iran in order to implement regime change. And they will basically get whatever..."
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"...useful. What I'm trying to do, my major project is to figure out how the world works and be nonjudgmental. In, uh, my speculation..."
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"...truth is too scary. And what we're going to do is figure out what the truth is. What is AI? What is artificial intelligence?..."
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"...curry the LMM the LMM then takes a curry and then figures out the information from the internet and then presents it into a..."
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"...for simple problems but there's certain hard problems that humans cannot figure out okay and one hard problem is the idea of facial recognition..."
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"trying to figure out what the weighting is and I could try to play play by myself like say one percent two percent five..."
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"...there's a lot of money behind this, okay? They're trying to figure out who's sleeping, who's studying, and it sounds good because this will..."
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"...civilian state so if you do online it's being recorded to figure out how to control you and then this is the most controversial..."
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"...a company that's often confusing is you find it hard to figure out where sales are. So about 10 years ago, I started using..."
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"Well, I think there's a possibility that they figure out how to cheat in 2028. Oh, as in actually cheat at the election? Right...."
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
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