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title: "Trump in China as a Grand Bargain Engine"
description: "Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater. He argues the two sides are converging toward a broad U.S.-China deal over finance, energy, AI chips."
source_title: "Game Theory #25:  Trump Visits China"
published_at: "2026-05-14"
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# Trump in China as a Grand Bargain Engine

> Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater. He argues the two sides are converging toward a broad U.S.-China deal over finance, energy, AI chips, and strategic geography, with payment in narrative control.

- Source: [Game Theory #25:  Trump Visits China](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI)
- Published: 2026-05-14, day precision
- Human episode page: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/)
- Episode Markdown: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.md](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.md)
- Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)
- Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/)
- Transcript Markdown: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript.md](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript.md)
- Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript.txt)
- Episode JSON with transcript segments: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.json)

## Thesis

The class frames U.S.-China normalization as a game: visible conflict is useful noise, while incentives on both sides are converging around financial integration, chip access, and energy routing. The same framework expands into a deeper ontology where attention and monetary architecture are the core levers of power.

## Core Reading

The visit is introduced as a high-stakes signal event, not a routine diplomacy day. Jiang’s first claim is that only one thing explains why the visit matters: the delegation itself. When cabinet leaders and finance executives arrive together, he reads it as evidence of a pending economic framework larger than the public statement. The lecture is therefore less about headlines and more about whether the move fits a preexisting strategic map.

Sources: [0:02 seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0001) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=2s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0001`; [1:34 seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0002) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=94s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0002`; [2:55 seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0003) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=175s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0003`

## In This Episode

- [00:00-00:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=2s) - From Friction to Forecast: Jiang opens with Trump’s entourage and the first shock of immediate confrontation between Xi and Washington policy domains.
- [00:09-00:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=242s) - Theater in Plain Sight: He recasts AI sanctions and Iran escalations as visible friction within a deeper, mutually reinforcing bargaining track.
- [00:17-00:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=733s) - An Older Map: Nixon as Precedent: A brief historical reconstruction places 1972 in the same strategic family as today.
- [00:24-00:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1154s) - Attention, Illusion, and Power: The lecture’s most abstract move: reality is treated as shared projection controlled by attention architecture.
- [00:31-01:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1483s) - Banking as System, Debt as Constraint: He gives an extended model of debt creation and the institutions that keep the monetary system legible as legitimacy rather than coercion.
- [01:07-01:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3739s) - Grand Bargain as Payoff Rule: The lecture closes with an explicit exchange-of-demands model and a short prediction window.

## Quotable Evidence From This Reading

These cards connect the compressed reading to exact source coordinates. Use the summary and related lens links as the interpretive map; use the transcript and video links when quoting or attributing claims to Jiang.

1. Core Reading
   Quote: "high-stakes signal event"
   Transcript: [0:02 seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0001)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=2s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0001`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

2. Core Reading
   Quote: "brought together in one room is a proxy for a mega announcement"
   Transcript: [1:34 seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0002)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=94s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=94s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0002`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

3. Core Reading
   Quote: "So Trump is in China. This happened about 30 minutes ago, an hour south of us. So Trump came in last night,..."
   Transcript: [0:02 seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0001-chunk-001)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=2s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0001`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

4. Core Reading
   Quote: "And what Chinese are focusing on is who came with Trump. So many of his family members came with Trump, including his..."
   Transcript: [1:34 seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0002-chunk-001)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=94s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=94s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0002`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

5. From Friction to Forecast: He spends the first ten minutes building a bargaining inference: Trump’s entourage includes political authority, AI and hardware leadership, and major financial actors.
   Quote: "a broad reconvergence is likely"
   Transcript: [2:55 seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0003)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=175s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0003`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

6. Theater in Plain Sight: The sequence from Manus restrictions to sanction countermeasures is treated as a noisy edge of a deeper sequence.
   Quote: "it's all theater"
   Transcript: [7:34 seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0007-chunk-023)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=516s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0007`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

7. Theater in Plain Sight: The sequence from Manus restrictions to sanction countermeasures is treated as a noisy edge of a deeper sequence.
   Quote: "So the first thing that happened is that China blocked Manus. Manus is an AI company that Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy...."
   Transcript: [4:02 seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0004-chunk-001)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=242s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0004`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

8. An Older Map: Nixon as Precedent: He pivots from current conflict to Nixon-era architecture, arguing that the 1971 monetary shift is not background but mechanism.
   Quote: "Strategic ambiguity"
   Transcript: [17:41 seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0015-chunk-005)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1083s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1083s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0015`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

9. An Older Map: Nixon as Precedent: He pivots from current conflict to Nixon-era architecture, arguing that the 1971 monetary shift is not background but mechanism.
   Quote: "the 1972 monetary framework becomes a current template"
   Transcript: [15:00 seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0013)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=900s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0013`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

10. An Older Map: Nixon as Precedent: He pivots from current conflict to Nixon-era architecture, arguing that the 1971 monetary shift is not background but mechanism.
   Quote: "So, the Trump visit today is analogous to Nixon's visit in 1972. Okay? So, you don't know this, but before 1972, America..."
   Transcript: [13:30 seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0012-chunk-001)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=810s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=810s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0012`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

11. An Older Map: Nixon as Precedent: A brief historical reconstruction places 1972 in the same strategic family as today.
   Quote: "All right. Now, there's a rumor a couple of days ago that one deal that Trump and Xi will sign in Beijing..."
   Transcript: [12:13 seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0011-chunk-001)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=733s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0011`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

12. Attention, Illusion, and Power: He introduces a philosophical core: reality is a collectively maintained projection, and wealth is attention itself.
   Quote: "reality is a shared projection"
   Transcript: [20:18 seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0017)
   Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1218s)
   Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0017`
   Episode reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi.txt)

## Reading

### From Friction to Forecast

Time: 00:00-00:09
Summary: Jiang opens with Trump’s entourage and the first shock of immediate confrontation between Xi and Washington policy domains.

He spends the first ten minutes building a bargaining inference: Trump’s entourage includes political authority, AI and hardware leadership, and major financial actors. That bundle implies a move beyond photo-op symbolism. The prediction follows immediately: a broad reconvergence is likely, not because the administration is coherent to date, but because trade, energy access, and finance require a structure that cannot be negotiated in isolated incidents.

Sources: [0:02 seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0001) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=2s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0001`; [1:34 seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0002) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=94s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0002`; [2:55 seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0003) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=175s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0003`

### Theater in Plain Sight

Time: 00:09-00:17
Summary: He recasts AI sanctions and Iran escalations as visible friction within a deeper, mutually reinforcing bargaining track.

The sequence from Manus restrictions to sanction countermeasures is treated as a noisy edge of a deeper sequence. His claim is that both governments are managing incentives while maintaining public aggression. The same logic carries into Iran: he argues the geography and timing of who meets whom reveal the same bargaining geometry.

Sources: [4:02 seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0004) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=242s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0004`; [5:12 seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0005) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=312s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0005`; [8:40 seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0008) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=520s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0008`

### An Older Map: Nixon as Precedent

Time: 00:17-00:24
Summary: A brief historical reconstruction places 1972 in the same strategic family as today.

He pivots from current conflict to Nixon-era architecture, arguing that the 1971 monetary shift is not background but mechanism. In this frame, dollar demand is sustained by oil pricing structures, while manufacturing and financial openness become instruments of a larger world arrangement. Taiwan then appears as a strategic ambiguity variable, not a static value.

Sources: [13:30 seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0012) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=810s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0012`; [15:00 seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0013) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=900s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0013`; [16:20 seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0014) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=980s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0014`; [17:41 seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0015) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1061s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0015`

### Attention, Illusion, and Power

Time: 00:24-00:31
Summary: The lecture’s most abstract move: reality is treated as shared projection controlled by attention architecture.

He introduces a philosophical core: reality is a collectively maintained projection, and wealth is attention itself. Power is the capacity to orient that attention through institutions and narratives. The concrete claim is that banking, media, policy process, and legal architecture are the practical apparatuses making these projections feel natural. This is why he can move from Nixon-level macro history to classroom-level consciousness in one lecture.

Sources: [20:18 seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0017) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1218s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0017`; [21:24 seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0018) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1284s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0018`; [22:35 seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0019) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1355s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0019`; [23:20 seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0021) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=1400s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0021`

### Banking as System, Debt as Constraint

Time: 00:31-01:07
Summary: He gives an extended model of debt creation and the institutions that keep the monetary system legible as legitimacy rather than coercion.

The model shifts into operational mechanics: private banking reserves, private central-bank coalition, and government borrowing become a single chain. He argues instability arrives not as a moral argument but as a numeric one: debt size and interest burden force institutions to expand demand for U.S. Treasuries through retail and policy infrastructure. Stablecoins, in this framing, are not merely fintech innovation but a mechanism for embedding debt demand across publics.

Sources: [50:18 seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0044) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3018s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0044`; [54:00 seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0049) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3240s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0049`; [55:04 seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0050) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3304s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0050`; [56:15 seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0051) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3375s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0051`; [57:22 seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0052) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3442s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0052`; [58:31 seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0053) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3511s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0053`; [1:01:19 seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0055) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3679s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0055`

### Grand Bargain as Payoff Rule

Time: 01:07-01:13
Summary: The lecture closes with an explicit exchange-of-demands model and a short prediction window.

He finalizes the framework as two-sided gain conditions: China wants cheap energy access, AI chips, and U.S. market access; the U.S. wants Chinese financial participation, debt financing channels, surveillance scale, and manufacturing throughput. Taiwan becomes a strategic routing variable because geography and logistics can transfer political friction to intermediaries. The class closes with an explicit prediction that this bargain will soon be testable, marking the argument as falsifiable rather than dogmatic.

Sources: [1:02:19 seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0056) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3739s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0056`; [1:03:34 seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0057) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3814s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0057`; [1:04:55 seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0058) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3895s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0058`; [1:05:44 seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0059) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=3944s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0059`; [1:10:41 seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0065) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=4241s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0065`; [1:11:52 seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0066) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=4312s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0066`; [1:13:00 seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0067) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=4380s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0067`

## Questions

### Do you care about sovereignty and morality in this model?

He answers that game theory is about actors pursuing best interests under constraints. In that framing, moral and sovereignty language is secondary if stable access and predictable costs are at stake.

He answers that game theory is about actors pursuing best interests under constraints. In that framing, moral and sovereignty language is secondary if stable access and predictable costs are at stake.

Sources: [1:07:08 seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0062) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=4028s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0062`

Sources: [1:06:58 seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0061) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=4018s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0061`; [1:07:08 seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi/transcript/#seg-0062) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl5vJn6ohI&t=4028s)) `video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0062`

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