The Dividual Strikes Back—Why Nothing and Everything is Your Fault

Ever had a video game colonise your brain some so that it affects your waking life? You picture pixels in bed, solving problems and devising strategies like Beth Harman in "The Queen's Gambit"? | You've been experiencing The Tetris Effect—something I experienced while creating a 3D version of Tetris, come visit the site and play here: https://nonzerosum.games/thetetriseffect.html

My contention, in this post, is that there are always, and always will be, more individuals who are interested in their continued survival than there are those who need to dominate all, and those interested in continued survival will rightly see a dominant individual as a threat to their survival.I call this "The Natural Alliance of Everyone Else". | If you'd like to check out the original post, visit: https://nonzerosum.games/naturalallianceofeveryoneelse.html

A big one, about the mother of all coordination problems. | For the original post with links and pictures visit: https://nonzerosum.games/metacrisis.html

One of the strangest dynamics in geopolitical history has to be that of Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.), it is almost as crazy as its name suggests... but now everything has changed. | Visit the original post for links and pictures here: https://nonzerosum.games/bayesiangameswithnukes.html

This episode deals with our complicity in the complex systems that arise from and determine our world and our lives. | For the original post and links, visit: https://nonzerosum.games/dividualstrikesback.html

In this episode we explore the ways in which siloed cooperation can make conflict worse, and make cooperative groups dangerous to "The Other". | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/darksideofalignment.html

This episode in our alignment series considers Emmett Shear’s position that human may actually be uniquely suited to creating alignment. | For the original post and links visit: https://nonzerosum.games/alignmentgenerators.html

The following 7 (and a bit) part series of posts revisits the idea of goal alignment between humanity and artificial intelligence, and within humanity between the individual and the collective.|To read along (with illustrations) visit: https://nonzerosum.games/amicableape.html

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 Introduction00:03:28 Interview Starts00:08:03 OpenAI swarm hacks Hugging Face & Mythos first strike00:13:16 The Super-Defector00:15:58 A glimmer of hope00:18:53 Collaborative competition00:30:28 Liv's obsession with Polytopia00:35:41 Making games more win-win00:37:49 Moloch & Norma00:45:35 Daniel Suarez’s “Daemon”00:46:43 Returning to win-win game development00:50:28 Neutropia00:52:52 The Meta-Crisis00:58:17 10 Principles of Win-Win01:02:08 The end of M.A.D.01:06:04 The importance of storytelling01:09:37 Faces of X & The Anti-Debate01:12:30 Effective Altruism's fascination with AI X-risk01:17:53 The future Liv wants to seeMentions:Win-Win PodcastFaces of XElowyn: Quest of TimeNeutropiaEmmett Shear's Interview (with sketch-notes)Wes Roth on Mythos first strikeThe Super-Defector

The concept of a dividual raises an interesting question about how something can be both an entity, but also divisible. It's one of those terms which, since I've learned it, I see it everywhere, it's felt more and more relevant to the world today, as if we're living a new era of the dividual. | For the original post and links, visit: https://nonzerosum.games/dividual.html