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How I Analyze the News With Game Theory I want to give people insight into how I think about the world and how I go about doing research. I’m going to show you how I go about watching the news, interpreting the news, and analyzing news. First of all,

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Game Theory #29: Final Examination

Geopolitics and the Decline of America On the State of US Geopolitics Carina: Based on your lectures, it seems the US is pretty screwed. They need other countries to buy US Treasuries. Israel's not loyal — Israel probably wants to work with other countries to establish their own Pax

Great Books #12: Dante in Paradise

To understand the Divine Comedy, it is very important to put it in the context of the other great books. In human history, there have been three great poets. The first is Homer. The second is Virgil. The third is Dante. Homer gave us the Iliad and the Odyssey. By

Game Theory #28: Predictive History

The main driving question is: why did the United States attack Iran? This is the central mystery of the world today, because even now Donald Trump has yet to articulate a reason for attacking Iran. And unless we can properly understand or diagnose the rationale for this war, it'

Great Books #11: Dante's Revolution

The Divine Comedy is the most influential work of literature in European history. Why? Because Dante's Comedy will give rise to the Protestant Reformation, as well as the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Renaissance — basically modernity itself. The question is, how did Dante accomplish this? He accomplished this

Game Theory #27: Putin Enters the Chat

President Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday evening. He had a full day of meetings yesterday and left last night. They went to a conference hall where they unveiled a photo of the two being very close. President Putin and President Xi are very good friends. This is Putin'

Game Theory #26: The Holy Empire of AI

We will connect secret societies, eschatology, and secret history with game theory to show how the world works. First, let's go over some popular conspiracy theories about how the world works. There are different variations, so I'll just go over a very simplified, clear version. We

Game Theory #25: Trump Visits China

Trump is in China. He came in last night, and this morning he met with President Xi at the Great Hall of the People.He brought his entire cabinet, including Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, as well as Pete Hegseth, who is the Secretary of War. The last time

Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse

After I posted my thoughts from last Thursday, my friend and teacher David Bromwich sent me an email. I asked for his permission to make it public, and he agreed. Today, we're going to read his email together. He said: I just watched your video. There's

Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard

This is an introduction to the chessboard, the players, and how the game of World War III will be played over the next 5 to 10 years. The two major players are the United States and Russia. Right now, they are fighting a proxy war in the Middle East between

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A community-driven archive of Professor Jiang Xueqin's lectures. By analyzing the recurring patterns of civilization and structural game theory, we explore where humanity is headed next.

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