Non • Zero • Sum James

My contention, in this post, is that there are always, and always will be, more individuals who are interested in their continued survival than there are those who need to dominate all, and those interested in continued survival will rightly see a dominant individual as a threat to their survival.

I call this "The Natural Alliance of Everyone Else".

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A big one, about the mother of all coordination problems.

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One of the strangest dynamics in geopolitical history has to be that of Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.), it is almost as crazy as its name suggests... but now everything has changed.

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This episode deals with our complicity in the complex systems that arise from and determine our world and our lives.

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In this episode we explore the ways in which siloed cooperation can make conflict worse, and make cooperative groups dangerous to "The Other".

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For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/darksideofalignment.html

This episode in our alignment series considers Emmett Shear’s position that human may actually be uniquely suited to creating alignment.

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The following 7 (and a bit) part series of posts revisits the idea of goal alignment between humanity and artificial intelligence, and within humanity between the individual and the collective.

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To read along (with illustrations) visit: https://nonzerosum.games/amicableape.html

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

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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.

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A classic behavioural model... perhaps not entirely based on scientific evidence, but an instructive story none the less.

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