Non • Zero • Sum James

So, we've seen how reasoning by analogy can help people express their genius, but what about us normies? In this final episode of our Polymaths series we ask how this approach can help us, and how first principles can really backfire on a social level | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/polymaths3.html

What's not so good about first principles? | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/polymaths2.html

This three-part series looks at two different ways that genius and innovation manifest in the world: first principles thinking and arguing by analogy. | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/analogies1.html

This series is not just about raising concerns, throughout we have been focused on specific and philosophical solutions to the problems raised and in this final post we gather these all in one place, ending the series with you hopefully feeling empowered to be part of the solution. | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/alignment6.html

In this episode we ask if AI might be able to help with humanity's own alignment problem. Could making AI's primary objective be alignment, and have its current functionality grow out of that—performing tasks and answering questions for instance—as an extension of a general principle of aligning with human interests? | For the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/alignment5.ht...

This episode looks at the issue at three different scales; the human, the political and the biological. | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/alignment4.html

What do Aristotle, J.S Mill, Richard Nixon, Ibram X. Kendi and John Key have in common? They all tried to, at some point combine the interests of the individual and the collective. | For the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/alignment3.html

In part 2 of this alignment series, we look at humanity's own alignment issue. | For the original post, links and pictures visit: https://nonzerosum.games/alignment2.html

The first in a series about humanity's own alignment problem... which we'll need to deal with before we can approach goal alignment in AI. | For the original post, notes and links: https://nonzerosum.games/alignment1.html

In this post I try to distill the "why" of nonzerosum.games. | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/why.html

A hopeful conclusion to Andrew Tane Glen's series "Why Cooperate" | See the original post and links here: https://nonzerosum.games/whycooperate3.html

Andrew Tane Glen continues his 3-part series "Why Cooperate" | for the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/whycooperate2.html

this week I've invited Andrew Tane Glen to read his guest post "Why Cooperate". Andrew a software engineer and an Aristotle scholar (with a Masters in Philosophy) and also my best mate, with whom I talk philosophy on the regular. His unique creative and analytical philosophical approach often yields unexpected insights—insights that have impacted the way I see the world. His concepti...

Written on the day of Alexei Navalny's death, a meditation on courage & sacrifice. | For the original post with links and resources: https://nonzerosum.games/oneperson.html

This one created a bit of a stir when I first wrote the post. Hopefully people can see that the message is a positive one, for everyone. | For the original post and links, visit: https://nonzerosum.games/masculinity.html

For supplementary diagrams and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/npc.html

A funny story that wasn't so funny at the time (as is so often the case). | For the original post visit: https://nonzerosum.games/nomatterwhereyougetto.html

The system didn't and doesn't need to be this way. | For the original post visit: https://nonzerosum.games/painejustice.html

I'm always trying to picture in my mind what sort of society I want to live in. To do this is to balancing the freedoms I'm willing to forego in order to provide rights that we determine to be essential to a healthy society. | This week's episode explores the new way of looking at Rights & Liberties, as a way of codifying this process, rather being used as vaguely interchangeable t...

In this episode we make the case for giving money to people who are bad with money! | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/poverty.html

I will be making the case that somewhat counter-intuitively, by saving lives we actually  reduce  over-population. | For the full post and references: https://nonzerosum.games/savinglives.html

've been wrong about the meaning of Meritocracy, and for good reason, there are many different definitions—the term has been used as a pejorative, as an aspirational term, as a definition of a government, and as a general way of allocating credit to individuals. But I understood it as this: A society where a person's rewards reflect  their efforts  (merit) | For links, pictures and referen...

This episode begins a series on luck and circumstances, and asks "What do we owe to each other?" | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/saidi.html

This is one of those ideas that constantly recurs in my mind throughout my day, one of those perspective-affecting mental models that helps me navigate the world, and hopefully will do the same for you. | For the full post and links: https://nonzerosum.games

A lot of politics out in the world appears to me at any rate to be based around a sort of kill-or-be-killed mentality, is if we live an the wild, and need to let nature sort the strong from the weak... but that's not the actual world we live in, so that political mentality is... well, nonsense. A rambling stream of consciousness about what to do in a society, like ours, when we, thankfully don...