--- title: Game Theory Series description: A chronological Jiang Lens index of the Predictive History Game Theory lectures with source-grounded episode links. --- # Game Theory Series This short index is built from local source titles that begin with `Game Theory #` and their published Jiang Lens episode reads. It is an aggregator, not a separate canon page. ## Chronological Episodes - 2026-01-06 - [Game Theory #1: The Dating Game](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.md): Status, fertility, and love become a game whose incentives scale into civilization. - 2026-01-08 - [Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.md): School is mapped as a stakeholder game where learning is often displaced by incentives. - 2026-01-13 - [Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.md): Parenting, trust, class, and mobility are treated as strategic formation problems. - 2026-01-15 - [Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.md): Immigration becomes a rule-following trap inside status, school, and fertility games. - 2026-01-20 - [Game Theory #5: The World Game](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.md): The weak borderland player can beat the rich center by changing the game. - 2026-01-22 - [Game Theory #6: The World's Bank](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.md): English, dollars, schooling, and migration are read as parts of a British-made world game. - 2026-01-27 - [Game Theory #7: America's Game](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.md): The United States turns empire, currency, and constitutional form into a portable game. - 2026-01-29 - [Game Theory #8: Communist Specter](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.md): Communism is analyzed as a tool that clears rival social orders for the capitalist game. - 2026-03-03 - [Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.md): The Iran war is framed through Hormuz, Gulf fragility, and American imperial exposure. - 2026-03-05 - [Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.md): The side that appears stronger can still lose if the rules favor the weaker actor. - 2026-03-10 - [Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.md): Escalation is treated as a calibration problem rather than a simple contest of weapons. - 2026-03-12 - [Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.md): Iran, Israel, Al-Aqsa, and end-times scripts are read as converging strategic incentives. - 2026-03-17 - [Game Theory #13: Epstein's World](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.md): Epstein becomes a lens on social reality, blackmail, finance, and imperial spectacle. - 2026-03-19 - [Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.md): The nearest game can govern action more than the declared national or ideological game. - 2026-03-24 - [Game Theory #15: The Return of History](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.md): The end-of-history story is treated as a temporary American spell. - 2026-03-26 - [Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.md): The war is split into layers of U.S., Israeli, Iranian, and capital incentives. - 2026-03-26 - [Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload)](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.md): The same source arc is preserved as a re-uploaded public read. - 2026-03-31 - [Game Theory #17: The Great Reset](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.md): Boom, bust, panic, and reset are modeled as an engineered collapse cycle. - 2026-04-02 - [Game Theory #18: Trump World Order](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.md): Trump, Iran, and empire are read through a controlled-collapse strategy. - 2026-04-07 - [Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.md): War culture converts military failure into rescue spectacle and narrative control. - 2026-04-09 - [Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.md): The midterm compresses river-history, prophecy, collapse, and human resilience. - 2026-04-21 - [Game Theory #21: World War Trump](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.md): The Iran war is used to read a fortress empire turning allies into vassals. - 2026-04-28 - [Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.md): Population, welfare, sovereignty, and war are treated as one national machine. - 2026-05-07 - [Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.md): Viewpoint, religious grammar, elites, and narrative control shape the strategic board. - 2026-05-12 - [Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.md): AI is framed less as intelligence than as language illusion, compliance, and control. - 2026-05-14 - [Game Theory #25: Trump Visits China](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.md): The Xi-Trump meeting becomes a grand-bargain theater for debt, energy, and empire. - 2026-05-19 - [Game Theory #26: The Holy Empire of AI](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rg1clzlrfoo.md): AI becomes the next sacred administrative order in Jiang's dated model. - 2026-05-21 - [Game Theory #27: Putin Enters the Chat](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x83hclwvhi8.md): Putin is read as a player resisting the throne rather than simply seeking it. - 2026-05-26 - [Game Theory #28: Predictive History](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dja6dkcfnge.md): Iran, imperial decline, eschatology, and AI are joined into a predictive-history synthesis. - 2026-05-28 - [Game Theory #29: Final Examination](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-re2uribefio.md): The farewell class compresses empire, collapse, AI, imagination, and the soul's purpose. ## Source Boundary The series membership here comes from `content/sources/videos/*/source.yaml` titles. Episode descriptions come from the matching `content/lens/episodes/*/read.json` public reads.