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COSTLY SIGNALLING

Jaiveer on buried mastery, Nash Equilibria and peacocks
A peacock running from a predator

INESCAPABLY VALUE-LADEN EXPERIENCE

a term I made up to help understand rational morality
A hedgehog trying to change their own preferences

WHAT IS CONFIDENCE?

in game theory and real life
A shy interaction

DISCOUNT FACTOR

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

CONSCIOUS SIGNIFICANCE

a new approach to free will & determinism
A determinism loop diagram

BOTH-SIDESISM

when fair & balanced goes wrong
A prisoner facing a repeated dilemma

REPEATED GAMES

guest writer Jaiveer Singh on finite vs infinite games
A prisoner facing a repeated dilemma

CONTAGIOUS BELIEFS

simulating the spread of ideas
Ideas spreading

SUBGAME PURRRFECTION

guest writer Jaiveer Singh explores subgame-perfect nash equilibrium
3 Cats

SHAPLEY VALUE CALCULATOR

a tool for fair allocation
3 Cats

COULD THINGS BE VERY DIFFERENT?

how historical inertia might blind us to optimal solutions
A semagram from Arrival

WE DON'T JUST LET PEOPLE DIE

so, what next?
A snake chasing a newt

COACH KROHN ON LEADERSHIP

lessons from a life lived leading and developing leaders
A moose holding a rugby ball

UNLOCKING SOLUTIONS

understanding coordination problems
A hedgehog jumping up to catch raining money

WHY PEOPLE IN POVERTY MAKE POOR DECISIONS

a case for giving more money to people who are bad with money
A hedgehog jumping up to catch raining money

SAVING LIVES REDUCES OVER-POPULATION

a counter-intuitive win-win
A diagram with arrows between infant mortality, fertility and an unknown variable.

CREATIVE PRINCIPLES

a behind-the-scenes look at nonzerosum.games
A birthday cake.

MASCULINITY

a case for courage
A dog mechanic.

FURRY FRIENDS

the joy of interspecies camaraderie
A hedgehog and a crab looking at each other.

GOODHART'S LAW

the problem with singular goals
A moth flying by moonlight.

A POSITIVE DOUBLE STANDARD

self-help principles work for individuals not populations
a self-help junkie.

EMERGENCE IS BEAUTIFUL

beauty and meaning in an entropic universe
Two hedgehogs discussing je ne sais quoi.

REPLICATORS

pandora's dangerous children
A cartoon of self-replicating robots.

ON THE SHOULDERS OF SUBSTRATES

how one phenomenon creates the foundation for the next
A cartoon of Eukaryotic and Procariotic cells.

EMERGENT GRAVITY

create your own universe from chaos
Particles forming order constellations.

EMERGENCE VS ENTROPY

a universal paradox
Earth being hit by sun-rays and radiating heat.

CONWAY'S GAME

how complexity emerges from simple rules
Hedgehog pondering shapes

WHAT CAN ONE PERSON DO?

Alexei Navalny
2 dogs hugging

WHY I'M KEEPING MY CRAPPY DRAWINGS

how ai art won't supplant... art
4 rabbits looking at paintings, each progressively less impressed

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