I wrote about Game B last year. Game B is kind of adjacent to Schmachtenberger’s ideas, and I cite him a fair bit. Quoting my summary:
I describe Game B, a worldview and community that aims to forge a new and better kind of society. It calls the status quo Game A and what comes after Game B. Game A is the activity we’ve been engaged in at least since the dawn of civilisation, a Molochian competition over resources. Game B is a new equilibrium, a new kind of society that’s not plagued by collective action problems.
While I agree that collective action problems (broadly construed) are crucial in any model of catastrophic risk, I think that
civilisations like our current one are not inherently self-terminating[1] (75% confidence);
there are already many resources allocated to solving collective action problems (85% confidence); and
Game B is unnecessarily vague (90% confidence) and suffers from a lack of tangible feedback loops (85% confidence).
It seems like this post was on your personal blog but not link-posted to the EA forum. It might make sense to consider doing that in the future for topics that are potentially EA relevant so that we can all get a quick sense of what the community is thinking about these topics.
I wrote about Game B last year. Game B is kind of adjacent to Schmachtenberger’s ideas, and I cite him a fair bit. Quoting my summary:
It seems like this post was on your personal blog but not link-posted to the EA forum. It might make sense to consider doing that in the future for topics that are potentially EA relevant so that we can all get a quick sense of what the community is thinking about these topics.