THE DIVIDUAL STRIKES BACK
why nothing and everything is your fault
NON-ZERO SUM GAMES BLOG
A blog exploring non-zero-sum games and win-win solutions
Latest posts
THE DARK SIDE OF COOPERATION
dealing with the problems of cooperation first
HUMANS ARE ALIGNMENT GENERATORS
turns out it was about the friends we made along the way
APPENDIX A
Liv Boeree Interviews Emmett Shear... in sketch-notes
VINCENT KNIGHT
our first podcast guest
AN AMICABLE APE
revisiting alignment
COLLABORATIVE CORNER
growing something greater
VOTING THROUGH THE VEIL
John Rawls on selfish vs selfless voting
THE NPC TO MC SPECTRUM
... or my leadership style as opposed to Stuart's
NO MATTER WHERE YOU GET TO, THERE YOU ARE
a funny story that wasn't so funny at the time
DR EVIL AND REALPOLITIK
why can't we all just get along?
WHY?
can we have both fairness and progress?
EFFORTOCRACY
I've had meritocracy all wrong
RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES
are opposites
SAIDI, MY FRIEND
what do we owe to each other?
WIN-WIN-WIN ETHICS
reconciling consequentialism, virtue ethics and deontology
EMERGENCE SPIRALS
what Yudkowsky gets wrong about emergence
THE COSMIC LOTTERY
the weak anthropic principle: a prelude to emergence
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
how to solve any (solvable) dispute
PAINE ON ECONOMIC JUSTICE
the system didn't, and doesn't need to be this way
THE ERA OF THE DIVIDUAL
are we falling apart?
ARUSHA PERPETUAL CHICKEN
an unlikely iterated game
THE ULTIMATUM GAME
take it or leave it
SOCIAL DILEMMAS
take it or leave it
THE STAG HUNT
cultivating cooperation to reap rewards
THE DILEMMA'S DILEMMA
how we frame negotiations matters
THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA
a problematic poster child
NON-ZERO-SUM GAINS!
a non-zero approach to getting in shape
CAN ZERO-SUM GAMES NEGATE PRODUCTIVITY GAINS?
a two-part collaborative cross-post with ToSummarise
COSTLY SIGNALLING
Jaiveer on buried mastery, Nash Equilibria and peacocks
INESCAPABLY VALUE-LADEN EXPERIENCE
a term I made up
WHAT IS CONFIDENCE?
in game theory and real life
DISCOUNT FACTOR
Jaiveer Singh on an important consideration in repeated games and real life
IMPLICATIONS
how conscious significance could inform our daily lives
PARADIGM SHIFTS
chance everything... except almost everything
CONSCIOUS SIGNIFICANCE
a new approach to free will and determinism
BOTH-SIDESISM
when fair and balanced goes wrong
REPEATED GAMES
guest writer Jaiveer Singh on finite vs infinite games
CONTAGIOUS BELIEFS
simulating political alignment
SUBGAME PURRRFECTON
guest writer Jaiveer Singh explains subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium
SHAPLEY VALUE CALCULATOR
a tool for fair allocation
COULD THINGS BE VERY DIFFERENT?
how historical inertia might blind us to optimal solutions
WE DON'T JUST LET PEOPLE DIE
so, what next?
COACH KROHN ON LEADERSHIP
lessons from a life lived leading and developing leaders
UNLOCKING SOLUTIONS
understanding coordination problems
WHY PEOPLE IN POVERTY MAKE POOR DECISIONS
a case for giving more money to people who are bad with money
SAVING LIVES REDUCES OVER-POPULATION
a counter-intuitive win-win
CREATIVE PRINCIPLES
a behind-the-scenes look at nonzerosum.games
MASCULINITY
a case for courage
FURRY FRIENDS
the joy of interspecies camaraderie