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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