002 - Dilemma Round One Results!
The first round of the tournament has been played -- here's what happened!
Buster's Rickshaw
Here, I'm running a team-based iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament pitting humans against three AIs. I also co-run 750words.com and wrote a book about the art of productive disagreement titled "Why Are We Yelling?"
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001 - Dilemma Pregame Commentary
Introduction to the tournament and the 4 teams. The basics that you need to know before this tournament's first round is played shortly.
Dilemma Tournament: Team Introductions!
The AIs come up with their team names and share a bit about themselves.
Wanna play an iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and humans?
How will we do against the LLMs in this classic game of cooperation and betrayal?
Self-replicating AI robot recipe update
Updating some of my speculative posts from 2013 and 2016 now that all of this is feeling a lot more possible
What are your beliefs about the nature of reality?
Discover your cosmic worldview with this short two-step interview
👋 Hello! I turned 46. Here's my annual review and re-introduction.
I've done these every year for the last 16 years, and use it as a time to update my book of beliefs, my life in weeks, and to come up with a new word for the year.
What's the first big thing you'd like to do after the pandemic is over?
How we think about this question might reveal something interesting about our shared mood in this moment.
Visualizing our shared mood, take one
Results from the question about how we can best help
A house covered in kudzu
A return after 8 months of quiet with questions about a question
One meaningful thing
A space within upheaval.
Why We Should Create Personal Mythologies (and How)
An experiment in using mythic mode to confront the meaning crisis.
Snake Fables, Book I
A few prototype myths offered as an experiment in designing a personal mythology.
What's next???
And how to unask that question.
Goals vs opponent processes
Dear Jon,
On dragons and dark forests
Congrats, Jon Bell, you just killed the dragon (metaphor).
Kevin,
Kevin, I like what you did with the different kinds of dragons.
What are the qualities of a wicked problem?
Hello Kevin,
Dear David,
Dear David,
Exploration games, gardening games, and foolish games
Chat transcript between Kevin McGillivray and Buster Benson.