Non-Zero-Sum James

Our very first podcast interview, and starting strong with a Professor of Game Theory, Vince Knight from the University of Cardiff all the way on the other side of the world in Wales. | We sat down to talk about all sorts of applications of game theory in our personal and political lives, from his cutting edge research. A fabulous communicator and advocate for making the world a better place through game theory—a perfect interview to start a new feature of the podcast.

In response to Elizier Yudkowski's essay "The Futility of Emergence" I take a very long time explaining some ways to define and recognise emergence in a way that is useful. | For the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/emergencespirals.html

This episode explores Susan Blackmore's concept of Temes and the importance of replicators when understanding emergence. | Original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/replicators.html

This is one where you'll want to visit the page (https://nonzerosum.games/graviton.html) because it has an interactive gravity simulation that is central to the piece. This is a (speculative) proof of concept that went a bit further than initially expected, and likely a strong candidate for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Now let's start looking at the dynamics of emergence—how to simple rules give rise to complexity. To do this we'll look at a simulation called "Conway's Game of Life" to see this process in action. | To play with the interactive simulations, visit: https://nonzerosum.games/conwaysgame.html

Ever told someone your idea, only to hear them pass it off as their own? Well done, that's how passing on ideas works. | https://nonzerosum.games/takingcredit.html

It's our birthday... well, it was when the original post was written, so this episode goes behind the scenes at the site, focusing in on five creative principles (six actually) that can be applied to any creative project. | For the original post, pictures and diagrams visit: https://nonzerosum.games/creativeprinciples.html

So, we've seen how reasoning by analogy can help people express their genius, but what about us normies? In this final episode of our Polymaths series we ask how this approach can help us, and how first principles can really backfire on a social level | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/polymaths3.html

This three-part series looks at two different ways that genius and innovation manifest in the world: first principles thinking and arguing by analogy. | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/analogies1.html

In this episode we ask if AI might be able to help with humanity's own alignment problem. Could making AI's primary objective be alignment, and have its current functionality grow out of that—performing tasks and answering questions for instance—as an extension of a general principle of aligning with human interests? | For the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/alignment5.html

What do Aristotle, J.S Mill, Richard Nixon, Ibram X. Kendi and John Key have in common? They all tried to, at some point combine the interests of the individual and the collective. | For the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/alignment3.html

The first in a series about humanity's own alignment problem... which we'll need to deal with before we can approach goal alignment in AI. | For the original post, notes and links: https://nonzerosum.games/alignment1.html

A hopeful conclusion to Andrew Tane Glen's series "Why Cooperate" | See the original post and links here: https://nonzerosum.games/whycooperate3.html