🌍♟️ Game Theory #5: The World Game - why do states rise and fall?
**Video discussion - watch beforehand. No screening.** **Short summary** Most history gets told like a story of great men, bad luck, wars, inventions, and the occasional dramatic collapse. Game theor…
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- Date and time
- PDT — local Vancouver time
- Location
- Vancouver Central Library350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BCVancouver
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**Video discussion - watch beforehand. No screening.** **Short summary** Most history gets told like a story of great men, bad luck, wars, inventions, and the occasional dramatic collapse. Game theory asks a colder question: What if some of this is about incentives? States rise. States fall. Leaders cooperate, betray, overreach, bargain, centralize, fragment, and make choices that may look irrational until you see the game they think they are playing. This discussion is built around the **Predictive History** video **“Game Theory #5: The World Game,”** where Professor Jiang uses game theory to explain how states rise and fall. That is the room I want. Not a history trivia night. Not a geopolitics doom-scroll session. Not everyone pretending they could run an empire better from a library chair in Vancouver. A real conversation about power, coordination, trust, institutions, collapse, and why large human systems are so hard to keep alive once the incentives start rotting. **A few questio
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- Price:
- Free
- Organizer:
- Vancouver Curiosity Club!
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- meetup
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