All Episodes
Non • Zero • Sum James — 73 episodes
Win-Winning with Liv Boeree
The Dividual—are we falling apart?
Are You a Crab in a Bucket?
Furry Friends
Parable of a Polyp
Interview: Vincent Knight—Game Theorist
Coach Krohn on Leadership
Emergence Spirals
Emergence is Beautiful
Replicators—The Pandoran Children of Emergence
On the Shoulders of Substrates
Emergent Gravity
Emergence vs Entropy—a Universal Paradox
Conway's Game—Emergence 2/8
The Cosmic Lottery—a prelude to emergence.
Taking Credit
Collaborative Corner
5 Creative Principles
Why I'm Keeping My Crappy Drawings
What About Us—Polymaths 3/3
The Whole Kitten Cavoodle—Polymaths 2/3
An Argument for Analogies—Polymaths 1/3
The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About—Solutions
The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About—Can AI Help?
The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About—The SCALE of the Issue
The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About—Getting Aligned Through History
The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About—Humanity's Alignment Problem
The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About—What is Alignment?
Why?—Can we have both fairness & progress?
The End of Morality
Why Cooperate?—Part 2
Why Cooperate?—Andrew Tane Glen introduces the super-defector
What Can One Person do?—Alexei Navalny
Masculinity—a case for courage
The NPC → MC Spectrum
No Matter Where You Get To... There You Are
Paine on Economic Justice
Rights & Liberties—are opposites
Why People in Poverty Make Poor Decisions
Saving Lives Reduces Overpopulation
Effortocracy ~ I've had meritocracy all wrong
Saidi, My Friend
Goodhart's Law ~ the problem with singular goals
We Don't Just Let People Die ~ so what next?
Looking to the Future ~ a simple recycling idea: part 3
Putting it on Plastic
8 Bottles ~ a Simple Recycling Idea
Negative Moral Licensing ~ the even eviler twin
Moral Licensing ~ the makings of a very Negative-Sum Game
A Positive Double Standard
A Kindness Equation
Capitalism ~ a Zero-Sum Game?
Evil Globalisation ~ and how it's Eliminating Global Poverty
Relative Gains ~ How not to Measure Success
Diminishing Returns ~ On Happiness
Movie Night
Arusha Perpetual Chicken
The Ultimatum Game
Social Dilemmas
The Stag Hunt
The Dilemma's Dilemma
The Prisoner's Dilemma ~ a Problematic Poster Child
It's Subjective
Costless Kindness
The Real Reason You Stop at a Red
Why Game Theory?
Liv Boeree ~ Non-Zero Hero
Unlocking Solutions
Moloch's Demise ~ Solving the Original Problem
4 Ways Moloch is Ruining Your Life
Who is Moloch?
What are Non-Zero-Sum Games?
Non-Zero-Sum James