EP 340 Worldviews: Liv Boeree on Poker, Moloch, and the Art of Finding Win-Wins

About this episode

Jim Rutt interviews Liv Boeree about consciousness, poker, and the ethical implications of multipolar traps.

Jim talks with Liv Boeree—science communicator, former professional poker player, and host of the Win-Win Podcast—about consciousness, egregores, multipolar traps, and the ethics of factory farming. They discuss the nature of personal identity across sleep, the teleportation machine thought experiment, consciousness as a self-aware story-threading entity, the "attention as cursor of consciousness" framing, Jim's memory-competition theory of attention, Gerald Edelman and Daniel Dennett as proponents of competitive models, the Telepathy Tapes podcast and nonverbal autistic children, Donald Hoffman's view that consciousness is foundational, panpsychism and the "radio tuner" model, Liv's poker premonition story and a $1,700,000 tournament win, two flavors of consciousness and psychedelics as a way of dialing into different frequencies, poker as spanning pure luck to pure skill, the data revolution in poker and the rise of game-theory robots, poker as an egregore and the idea that "the game is playing me," probability at micro vs. macro scales, egregores defined as beings in meme space, Moloch as the personification of multipolar traps, Instagram face filters as a micro Moloch…

People in this episode

Host: Jim Rutt

Guest: Liv Boeree

Topics covered

• consciousness
• poker
• ethics
• multipolar traps
• Moloch
• factory farming
• panpsychism

Keywords

• consciousness
• poker
• Moloch
• multipolar traps
• factory farming
• panpsychism
• egregores
• attention
• psychedelics
• game theory

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Win-Win Podcast, Telepathy Tapes podcast, Meditations on Moloch

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