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This week’s guest; Liv Boeree—host of the Win-Win Podcast, has been a key inspiration for nonzerosum.games from the start. Liv studied astrophysics and rose to prominence in the world of high-stakes poker. But for me, the public discussion she’s fuelled about using game theory and specifically win-win games, Moloch, effective altruism, and systems thinking to solve many pressing issues in the world today, is what interests me and made me realise there was an audience for these topics. This week you all get to meet her, as we sit down for our first ever Video podcast—an expansive discussion about psychopathic competitiveness, Moloch and his new friend Norma, mutually assured destruction, AI swarms and some fun stuff too; computer games, books and experimental dialogues. Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:28 Interview Starts 00:08:03 OpenAI swarm hacks Hugging Face & Mythos first strike 00:13:16 The Super-Defector 00:15:58 A glimmer of hope 00:18:53 Collaborative competition 00:30:28 Liv's obsession with Polytopia 00:35:41 Making games more win-win 00:37:49 Moloch & Norma 00:45:35 Daniel Suarez’s “Daemon” 00:46:43 Returning to win-win game development 00:50:28 Neutropia 00:52:52 The Meta-Crisis 00:58:17 10 Principles of Win-Win 01:02:08 The end of M.A.D. 01:06:04 The importance of storytelling 01:09:37 Faces of X & The Anti-Debate 01:12:30 Effective Altruism's fascination with AI X-risk 01:17:53 The future Liv wants to see Mentions: Win-Win Podcast Faces of X Elowyn: Quest of Time Neutropia Emmett Shear's Interview (with sketch-notes) Wes Roth on Mythos first strike The Super-Defector

The concept of a dividual raises an interesting question about how something can be both an entity, but also divisible. It's one of those terms which, since I've learned it, I see it everywhere, it's felt more and more relevant to the world today, as if we're living a new era of the dividual. | For the original post and links, visit: https://nonzerosum.games/dividual.html

A classic behavioural model... perhaps not entirely based on scientific evidence, but an instructive story none the less. | For the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/crabbucket.html

More and more my social feeds are populated with these little treats—interspecies friendships that give us a glimpse into the world of non-zero-sum interactions. | To enjoy all the visuals with the audio... visit: https://nonzerosum.games/furryfriends.html

Kicking off a series of episodes focused on non-zero-sum games in nature, beginning with a cooperative game with the highest of stakes. | For the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/parableofapolyp.html

Our very first podcast interview, and starting strong with a Professor of Game Theory, Vince Knight from the University of Cardiff all the way on the other side of the world in Wales. | We sat down to talk about all sorts of applications of game theory in our personal and political lives, from his cutting edge research. A fabulous communicator and advocate for making the world a better place through game theory—a perfect interview to start a new feature of the podcast.

This episode is a special one, with a special guest—my friend Coach Stuart (the Moose) Krohn. I explore Stuart's impact as a specialist in creating leaders.

In response to Elizier Yudkowski's essay "The Futility of Emergence" I take a very long time explaining some ways to define and recognise emergence in a way that is useful. | For the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/emergencespirals.html

What does living in an entropic universe mean for beauty... or meaning itself? | Original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/emergenceisbeautiful.html

This episode explores Susan Blackmore's concept of Temes and the importance of replicators when understanding emergence. | Original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/replicators.html

In the 5th part in our Emergence series, we look at a key mechanism of emergence; substrates. | Visit the original post here: https://nonzerosum.games/substrates.html

This is one where you'll want to visit the page (https://nonzerosum.games/graviton.html) because it has an interactive gravity simulation that is central to the piece. This is a (speculative) proof of concept that went a bit further than initially expected, and likely a strong candidate for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

How does emergence happen in a world determined by the second law of thermodynamics? It turns out that the universal trend towards entropy allows for pockets of emergence... as long as it increases entropy in the end! | For the original post visit: https://nonzerosum.games/emergencevsentropy.html

Now let's start looking at the dynamics of emergence—how to simple rules give rise to complexity. To do this we'll look at a simulation called "Conway's Game of Life" to see this process in action. | To play with the interactive simulations, visit: https://nonzerosum.games/conwaysgame.html

Imagine you wake up one morning to a phone call, you've won a million dollars... well, you have, kinda, your prize though is consciousness. Join us on an 8-part series about non-zero-sumness at the very foundations of physics | https://nonzerosum.games/cosmiclottery.html