Non-zero-sum James

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Podcaster and Blogger—strong believer in effective altruism and have taken the giving pledge.

My weekly blog and podcast at nonzerosum.games is a world-help site of sorts—focussing on win-win games as essential to facing global issues. I explore game-theoretical approaches to real world issues in an accessible way, using illustrations, simulations and badly drawn graphs.

Non-zero-sum James’s Quick takes

Non-zero-sum James19 Sep 2025 18:22 UTC

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Saidi, My Friend—what do we owe to each other?

Non-zero-sum James9 Aug 2025 19:37 UTC

23 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

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Liv Boeree—non-zero hero

Non-zero-sum James15 Jul 2025 0:29 UTC

23 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

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Win-Win-Win Ethics—Reconciling Consequentialism, Virtue Ethics and Deontology

Non-zero-sum James13 Jul 2025 1:42 UTC

6 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

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The Prisoner’s Dilemma

Non-zero-sum James2 Jul 2025 19:08 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

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Emergence Spirals—what Yudkowsky gets wrong

Non-zero-sum James8 Jun 2025 18:58 UTC

11 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

Unlocking Solutions—Locks, Poaching, DEI and Other Coordination Problems

Non-zero-sum James24 May 2025 23:07 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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The Cosmic Lottery

Non-zero-sum James24 May 2025 4:05 UTC

3 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

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The System Didn’t, and Doesn’t Need to be This Way ~ Thomas Paine on Economic Justice

Non-zero-sum James19 Apr 2025 5:16 UTC

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0 comments4 min readEA link

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The Era of the Dividual—are we falling apart?

Non-zero-sum James14 Apr 2025 20:20 UTC

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Arusha Perpetual Chicken—an unlikely iterated game

Non-zero-sum James6 Apr 2025 22:56 UTC

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Social Dilemmas — public goods, free riders, and exploitation

Non-zero-sum James5 Mar 2025 23:31 UTC

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0 comments3 min readEA link

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[Question] Is AI x-risk becoming a distraction?

Non-zero-sum James27 Feb 2025 20:33 UTC

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The Stag Hunt—cultivating cooperation to reap rewards

Non-zero-sum James25 Feb 2025 23:47 UTC

13 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

The Dilemma’s Dilemma

Non-zero-sum James19 Feb 2025 23:56 UTC

2 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

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Inescapably Value-Laden Experience—Can We Make Morality Rationalisable?

Non-zero-sum James15 Jan 2025 0:13 UTC

2 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

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What is Confidence, in Game Theory and Life?

Non-zero-sum James10 Dec 2024 23:11 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Paradigm Shifts—change everything… except almost everything

Non-zero-sum James26 Nov 2024 17:04 UTC

2 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

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A Case for Conscious Significance—an approach to free will & determinism

Non-zero-sum James23 Nov 2024 18:37 UTC

2 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

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Both-sidesism—When Fair & Balanced Goes Wrong

Non-zero-sum James2 Nov 2024 3:06 UTC

10 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

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