How do we escape Moloch’s trap for good?

In this special Burning Man edition of Win-Win, Liv forgoes the usual purple chairs for dusty playa to chat with Kristian Rönn. Kristian is the CEO and co-founder of Normative, a platform for helping industries strive for net zero emissions.

With intellectual roots in Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and his own mission to create positive-sum solutions to climate change, Kristian has just launched a new book - The Darwinian Trap - and in this conversation, Liv and Kristian examine solutions to the short-term thinking and cost externalisation that traditional markets often produce. A conversation full of evolutionary biology, game theory and economics as they examine solutions to the world’s deadliest demon.

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The Win-Win Podcast:

Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.

#WinWinPodcast #TheDarwinianTrap #Moloch 

Can we still accurately model elections in such chaotic times? Are prediction markets the future of news?

00:01:34 - Predicting Elections

Open-source movements have historically been a great source of collaboration. Can we harness the power of open source software, science or AI to help solve the world's coordination problems? Or could it just make everything worse?

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♾️ Hosted and Produced by Liv Boeree

♾️ Edited and Mixed by Ryan Kessler

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♾️ Peter’s Twitter: ⁠https://x.com/pwang?lang=en⁠

♾️ Anaconda: ⁠https://www.anaconda.com/⁠

♾️ Peter’s Blog: ⁠https://medium.com/@pwang⁠

The Win-Win Podcast:

Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.

#WinWinPodcast #Moloch #AI #Python

What are the key ingredients of successful long-term relationships? How can couples better navigate conflict? What about jealousy?

#relationships #datingadvice

Is complexity the new frontier of physics? How should we approach metaphysical uncertainty? What makes a great Physicist?

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00:01:59 - New Discoveries of the Webb Telescope

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Nihilism has become all too popular, and this man is on a mission to fix that! David is a philosopher and technologist focussed on understanding and healing what he calls the "Nihilism Crisis" - the crisis of meaning the world is currently suffering from, especially as it transitions into the AI age.

If you're interested in AI alignment, game theory, incentive design, Moloch and competition, this is very much a conversation for you.

00:14:39 - The Third Attractor

00:19:17 - The Four Abandonments

00:30:13 - Complexity Destruction & Extremism

00:44:30 - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

00:50:43 - Competition & Status Games

00:52:28 - AI & Why Silicon Valley's Vibe Seems Off

00:58:14 - Sam Altman as a High Priest?

00:59:02 - Summarizing Everything so Far

01:07:50 - Liv's Favourite Axioms

♾️ An Immanent Metaphysics https://www.amazon.com/Immanent-Metaphysics-Forrest-Landry/dp/B0CPSJ647N

How literally should we take the US Constitution? What about the bible? Should we experiment with radical honesty with strangers?

Why did Rome fall? What can we learn from past civilization collapses to protect our own? How do we fix our Institutions? In this Win-Win episode I speak to Samo Burja - a leading geopolitical analyst and founder of the intelligence brief Bismarck Analysis.

Samo is a prolific writer on nature of power, leadership, bureaucracy and governance. If you're worried about the health of our institutions and sense-making, this is the episode for you.

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:40 - Common Themes of Historical Civilizations

00:05:13 - Loss of Knowledge

00:13:38 - Impact of Demographic Collapse

00:17:06 - Indigenous Knowledge Loss

00:21:13 - Role of Institutions

00:24:01 - The Succession Problem & Knowledge Loss

00:38:34 - Bureaucracy and Goodhart's Law

00:45:52 - Democracy and Monarchy

00:50:44 - Sensemaking & AI

01:07:13 - Building New Civilizational Games

01:23:27 - Great Founder Theory

01:33:34 - What Makes a Great Founder?

01:38:53 - How to Avoid Getting Drunk on Power

01:44:50 - Democratization of Technology & Vulnerable Worlds

01:53:52 - Geopolitical Predictions

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♾️ Bismarck Brief https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/

♾️ Samo's Website https://samoburja.com/

♾️ Samo's Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@UC4QYBbgLkGaULStiC5yc_1Q

Credits

♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree

♾️ Produced by Raymond Wei

♾️ Edit and Audio Mix by Ryan Kessler

The Win-Win Podcast:

Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.

Polarization, echo chambers... how do we fix the problem of biased news? That's a problem today's Win-Win guest has dedicated her life to solving.

Is it possible to solve ocean pollution by turning the packaging industry into a closed-loop economy?