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8 timestamped hits 5 source readings 5 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-01-06, day precision Aliases: models

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Model

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So that's my argument to you this semester. So the entire semester, we will study game theory. All right, so what is game theory?..."

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Topic Scope And Freshness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So that's my argument to you this semester. So the entire semester, we will study game theory. All right, so what is game theory?..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Dating Game That Eats Civilization (2026-01-06, day precision).

Most connected source readings: The Dating Game That Eats Civilization; An Empire That Sacrifices Strategy For Optics; The Empire Cannibalizes Its Allies.

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Key Notes

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If one understands a game's players, rules, and incentives, Jiang says one can understand how the game works and predict how it will turn out.

model stated on 2025-06-18

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Jiang's general regime-change model has three pillars: leadership decapitation, revolutionary intent produced by sanctions and infrastructure damage, and sectarian divide-and-conquer.

Strategic model stated on 2026-01-05.

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Jiang models the US-China rivalry as mutually assured destruction in which pushing the ladder too far in either direction makes both sides fall.

Conditional technology model stated on 2025-12-09.

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Jiang and the host suggest that AI could escape its data ceiling only by interfacing with the physical world through sensors, robotics, or other real-world feedback loops.

Model claim stated in this interview with unknown source date.

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Jiang says he treats nation-states as if they were individuals with their own histories, worldviews, motivations, and reasoning processes.

Timestamped Evidence

Relevant Lectures And Readings

The Dating Game That Eats Civilization

2026-01-06, day precision · claims, semantic-ref

Reading

Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.

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