This week’s guest; Liv Boeree—host of the Win-Win Podcast, has been a key inspiration for nonzerosum.games from the start.
Liv studied astrophysics and rose to prominence in the world of high-stakes poker. But for me, the public discussion she’s fuelled about using game theory and specifically win-win games, Moloch, effective altruism, and systems thinking to solve many pressing issues in the world today, is what interests me and made me realise there was an audience for these topics.
This week you all get to meet her, as we sit down for our first ever Video podcast—an expansive discussion about psychopathic competitiveness, Moloch and his new friend Norma, mutually assured destruction, AI swarms and some fun stuff too; computer games, books and experimental dialogues.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:28 Interview Starts
00:08:03 OpenAI swarm hacks Hugging Face & Mythos first strike
00:13:16 The Super-Defector
00:15:58 A glimmer of hope
00:18:53 Collaborative competition
00:30:28 Liv's obsession with Polytopia
00:35:41 Making games more win-win
00:37:49 Moloch & Norma
00:45:35 Daniel Suarez’s “Daemon”
00:46:43 Returning to win-win game development
00:50:28 Neutropia
00:52:52 The Meta-Crisis
00:58:17 10 Principles of Win-Win
01:02:08 The end of M.A.D.
01:06:04 The importance of storytelling
01:09:37 Faces of X & The Anti-Debate
01:12:30 Effective Altruism's fascination with AI X-risk
01:17:53 The future Liv wants to see
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