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James
@nonzerosum.games
Join a bleeding-heart liberal and compulsive speculator rambling about saving the world with win-win games at nonzerosum.games! #Philosophy #Ethics #Morality #Science #GameTheory #Economics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
When do we realise that other people don't think like we do... and how do we deal with groups that don't? Check out part 3 in our second alignment series... nonzerosum.games/ali... #GoalAlignment #AGI #AI #OpenAI #Moloch
HUMANS ARE ALIGNMENT GENERATORS
~ the solution to the alignment problem is within us ~
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The podcasts lags behind the posts, but this episode is essential for the current alignment series—it's a peculiar idea, but I think helps with sense-making in the current era... The Era of the Dividual: open.spotify.com/epi... Read & Listen here: nonzerosum.games/div...
The Dividual—are we falling apart?
Non • Zero • Sum James · Episode
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When do we realise that other people don't think like we do... and how do we deal with groups that don't? Check out part 3 in our second alignment series... nonzerosum.games/ali... #GoalAlignment #AGI #AI #OpenAI #Moloch
HUMANS ARE ALIGNMENT GENERATORS
~ the solution to the alignment problem is within us ~
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It’s been fun drawing this one, using the shapes from my game LOCKWISE to represent “different” people. Below is a glimpse behind the curtain—my use of what I like to think of as DaVinci-esque red under-drawing, which gives freedom to roughly sketch out ideas before cleaning them up after—more fun.
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NON-ZERO-SUM GAMES
~ a world-help site ~
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While writing this alignment series I came across Liv Boeree's interview with Emmett Shear, which tied many of the ideas together—I decided to take notes... SKETCH-NOTES And these make up POST 2 in the series... nonzerosum.games/ami... #GoalAlignment #AGI #AI #OpenAI #Moloch
AN AMICABLE APE—appendix A
~ sketchnotes: Liv Boeree & Emmett Shear on alignment ~
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Are you worried AI will learn to be monsters from their ultra-flawed parents? [us] This series might help you "process" these feelings—and might change your perception of just what humanity is made of. nonzerosum.games/ami... #Evolution #GameTheory #WinWin #Nature #Alignment
AN AMICABLE APE
~ revisiting alignment ~
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I turned Rock Paper Scissors into a non-zero-sum puzzle game. This may or may not be a sensible thing to do with one’s time. nonzerosum.games/loc... #GameDev #PuzzleGame #GameTheory #NonZeroSum
LOCKWISE
a metagame.
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The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is higher than at any point in at least the past one million years (according to evidence from paleoclimate records). More climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
I'm honoured to be illustrating a book! Game Theorist and recent podcast guest Professor Vincent Knight asked me to provide illustrations (some new and some from the site for his Game Theory textbook. For more links and our podcast interview visit
VINCENT KNIGHT
~ our first podcast guest ~
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Norway will always be the GOAT of the energy transition. Instead of talking about the future, they proved it could be done & showed how. In 15 years, new car sales went from 0% to 99% electric, while the rest of the world kept arguing about timing and speed. #Bettrification #EV
A guy wanted to adopt a cat, but he wouldn't leave his brother's side, so he had to take both of them. Original post
Hey book people are modern novels getting longer for the sake of "big book=better value for money" or is there an actual artistic reason for the massive page counts Because idk I like reading a lot of older books and many of the classics really aren't very long, yet are some of the most famous
"Let's work together, to make everything worse" — Moloch. nonzerosum.games/map... #Moloch #Incentives #SystemsThinking #GameTheory
MOLOCH SERIES
Discover who Moloch is and why understanding negative-sum games matters.
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For those in the UK looking to a new political future, check out “How to get filthy rich with Gary Stevenson” www.channel4.com/programmes/h...
How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson
Economist Gary Stevenson has a fix for the UK’s wealth gap - tax the super rich
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This new alignment series starts where the story of humanity does... in Africa! Take a trip with me that starts casually, but gets a little bumpy. nonzerosum.games/amicableape.... #GoalAlignment #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tanzania #Nature #NaturalisticFallacy #MetaCrisis #Futurism
AN AMICABLE APE
~ revisiting alignment ~
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I turned Rock Paper Scissors into a non-zero-sum puzzle game. This may or may not be a sensible thing to do with one’s time. nonzerosum.games/loc... #GameDev #PuzzleGame #GameTheory #NonZeroSum
LOCKWISE
a metagame.
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Everything you need to know about the world’s first trillionaire—worth watching to the end.
Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. How scared should you be?
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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The Ultimatum Game tests how much we're willing to punish unfairness at a cost to ourselves... nonzerosum.games/ult... #GameTheory #Fairness #Economics #Psychology
THE ULTIMATUM GAME
Take-it-or-leave-it bargaining scenario in game theory, exploring fairness, rejection, and subgame perfection.
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finance.yahoo.com/small-busine... And of course Bezo leaves this amazing Angel for a hideous, cheap gold digger. Love Mackenzie Scott! #billionaire #philanthropy #women #bezos
MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America’s $19.2 billion in megagifts last year
MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025, bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight.
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We are bound to do the "best" thing we can at any moment relative to our motivational scope (long/short-term). "Best" is that which we perceive gives us the greatest freedom. But we are not free to choose otherwise—we un-freely choose what that will give us the greatest freedom.
Are you hunting stags or hares? nonzerosum.games/sta... The Stag Hunt is a better model for politics and human relationships in general, than the Prisoner’s Dilemma #GameTheory #Coordination #Trust #Politics #NonZeroSum
THE STAG HUNT
cultivating cooperation to reap rewards
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The Prisoner’s Dilemma may be doing cultural damage. Not because it’s wrong, but because it’s so easy to misread. You can come away thinking humans are selfish little calculators because the game has been rigged to remove all the normal human context.
THE DILEMMA'S DILEMMA
Exploring how the Prisoner's Dilemma frames negotiations and why real-world constraints matter.
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Being an anti-cellphone parent is like being a recessive gene—we require contact with other anti-cellphone parents for it to stick.
“The trouble emerges when too many people free ride.” Public goods, unions, vaccination, climate, and a classroom game where the kids understood the commons faster than most adults seem to.
SOCIAL DILEMMAS
public goods, free riders and exploiters
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