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^THE COSMIC LOTTERY

the weak anthropic principle: a prelude to emergence

MOVIE NIGHT

battle of the sexes

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

public goods, free-riders, and exploitation

^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 to help understand rational morality

WHAT IS CONFIDENCE?

in game theory and real life

DISCOUNT FACTOR

Jaiveer Singh on an important consideration in repeated games and real life

CONSCIOUS SIGNIFICANCE

a new approach to free will & determinism

BOTH-SIDESISM

when fair & balanced goes wrong

REPEATED GAMES

guest writer Jaiveer Singh on finite vs infinite games

CONTAGIOUS BELIEFS

simulating the spread of ideas

SUBGAME PURRRFECTION

guest writer Jaiveer Singh explores 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

GOODHART'S LAW

the problem with singular goals

A POSITIVE DOUBLE STANDARD

self-help principles work for individuals not populations

EMERGENCE IS BEAUTIFUL

beauty and meaning in an entropic universe

REPLICATORS

pandora's dangerous children

ON THE SHOULDERS OF SUBSTRATES

how one phenomenon creates the foundation for the next

EMERGENT GRAVITY

create your own universe from chaos

EMERGENCE VS ENTROPY

a universal paradox

CONWAY'S GAME

how complexity emerges from simple rules

WHAT CAN ONE PERSON DO?

Alexei Navalny

WHY I'M KEEPING MY CRAPPY DRAWINGS

how ai art won't supplant... art

A KINDNESS EQUATION

should you give to charity or volunteer?

CAPITALISM

a zero-sum game?

RELATIVE GAINS

how not to measure success

EVIL GLOBALISATION

and how it is eliminating poverty

IT'S SUBJECTIVE

the end of the conversation?

CAPITALISING ON TRUST

a karmic simulation

WHY IS MORAL LICENSING NEGATIVE-SUM?

moral licensing - part 2

THE END OF MORALITY

Andrew Tane Glen's 'why cooperate?' part 3

MORAL LICENSING

the makings of a very negative-sum game

NON-ZERO THINKING FOR KIDS

taking non-zero-sum thinking out into the world

IT'S EMOTIONAL

Andrew Tane Glen's 'why cooperate?' part 2

WHY COOPERATE?

guest writer Andrew Tane Glen introduces the super-defector

COSTLESS KINDNESS

how pareto efficiency can make everyone better off (sometimes)

SHAPLEY VALUE IS RIDICULOUS

where game theory fails in real world applications

COMBINATORIAL GAMES

games with perfect information

SOLUTIONS

the alignment problem no one is talking about: part 6

CAN AI HELP?

the alignment problem no one is talking about: part 5

THE SCALE OF THE ISSUE

the alignment problem no one is talking about: part 4

GETTING ALIGNED THROUGH HISTORY

the alignment problem no one is talking about: part 3

THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COLLECTIVE

the alignment problem no one is talking about: part 2

THE ALIGNMENT PROBLEM NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT

what is alignment?

NASH EQUILIBRIUM

the real reason you stop at a red

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

a simple recycling idea: part III

TAKING CREDIT

the paradox of original ideas

PUTTING IT ON PLASTIC

a simple recycling idea: part II

A SIMPLE RECYCLING IDEA

8 bottles

^THE TETRIS EFFECT

3d minimalist tetris and the obscuring problem

MOLOCH'S DEMISE

solving the original problem

LIV BOEREE

a non-zero hero

4 WAYS MOLOCH IS RUINING YOUR LIFE!

the god of negative-sum games: part II

LOCKWISE

a meta-game

DIMINISHING RETURNS

a path to shared joy?

WHO IS MOLOCH?

the god of negative-sum games

PARABLE OF A POLYP

from zero-sum to non-zero-sum

WHAT ARE NON-ZERO-SUM GAMES?

an introduction

ARE YOU IN A CRAB BUCKET?

how to escape negative-sum games