I'm honoured to be illustrating a book! Game Theorist and recent podcast guest Professor Vincent Knight asked me to provide illustrations (some new and some from the site for his Game Theory textbook. For more links and our podcast interview visit

Just winning at life over here #Bouldering #Climbing #Fail

Norway will always be the GOAT of the energy transition. Instead of talking about the future, they proved it could be done & showed how. In 15 years, new car sales went from 0% to 99% electric, while the rest of the world kept arguing about timing and speed. #Bettrification #EV

A guy wanted to adopt a cat, but he wouldn't leave his brother's side, so he had to take both of them. Original post

Hey book people are modern novels getting longer for the sake of "big book=better value for money" or is there an actual artistic reason for the massive page counts Because idk I like reading a lot of older books and many of the classics really aren't very long, yet are some of the most famous

Just the ol’ reposting a repost of my repost

"Let's work together, to make everything worse" — Moloch. nonzerosum.games/map... #Moloch #Incentives #SystemsThinking #GameTheory

For those in the UK looking to a new political future, check out “How to get filthy rich with Gary Stevenson” www.channel4.com/programmes/h...

This new alignment series starts where the story of humanity does... in Africa! Take a trip with me that starts casually, but gets a little bumpy. nonzerosum.games/amicableape.... #GoalAlignment #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tanzania #Nature #NaturalisticFallacy #MetaCrisis #Futurism

I turned Rock Paper Scissors into a non-zero-sum puzzle game. This may or may not be a sensible thing to do with one’s time. nonzerosum.games/loc... #GameDev #PuzzleGame #GameTheory #NonZeroSum

Everything you need to know about the world’s first trillionaire—worth watching to the end.

The Ultimatum Game tests how much we're willing to punish unfairness at a cost to ourselves... nonzerosum.games/ult... #GameTheory #Fairness #Economics #Psychology

finance.yahoo.com/small-busine... And of course Bezo leaves this amazing Angel for a hideous, cheap gold digger. Love Mackenzie Scott! #billionaire #philanthropy #women #bezos

We are bound to do the "best" thing we can at any moment relative to our motivational scope (long/short-term). "Best" is that which we perceive gives us the greatest freedom. But we are not free to choose otherwise—we un-freely choose what that will give us the greatest freedom.

Are you hunting stags or hares? nonzerosum.games/sta... The Stag Hunt is a better model for politics and human relationships in general, than the Prisoner’s Dilemma #GameTheory #Coordination #Trust #Politics #NonZeroSum

The Prisoner’s Dilemma may be doing cultural damage. Not because it’s wrong, but because it’s so easy to misread. You can come away thinking humans are selfish little calculators because the game has been rigged to remove all the normal human context.

Being an anti-cellphone parent is like being a recessive gene—we require contact with other anti-cellphone parents for it to stick.

“The trouble emerges when too many people free ride.” Public goods, unions, vaccination, climate, and a classroom game where the kids understood the commons faster than most adults seem to.

If you need more pictures of my dog (you do) ... www.instagram.com/nonzerosumja... #dogs #pets

There's a very clear answer to which is more effective, #charity or #volunteering—but then it turns out to be more complicated than it first appears... in a good way. TL;DR everyone has the power to do good.

This from @livboeree.bsky.social blew my mind—creating multi-agent social AIs that are inherently socially aligned. Just tied so many ideas together for me. A surprising modern philosopher. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Alignment

"Kitten Cavoodle" are pretty anarchic, but also quite sensible.

Well noted? #notetoself #selfimprovement #cartoon #doghumor #animation #❤️simple

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. nonzerosum.games/goo... #mentalmodels

There's a very clear answer to which is more effective, #charity or #volunteering—but then it turns out to be more complicated than it first appears... in a good way. TL;DR everyone has the power to do good.

Revamped the Arcade now—a new layout showcasing #games and #simulations

A sprawling list of half-baked ideas, some of which probably already exist in some form or another—if you see something you want to make, run with it, I won't get to them all: nonzerosum.games/gam... #games #gamedev #ideas #ideation #sharing

If you need more pictures of my dog (you do) ... www.instagram.com/nonzerosumja... #dogs #pets

Since getting back from #AtmosphereConf I've spent days reading my notes and some of the material I’d bookmarked, posts I’d saved and photographs I’d taken, trying to get my thoughts into some sort of order. Still working on that, but managed to get out this: 🧵 experiments.myhub.ai/five_days_in...

Confusion eventually leads to insight… right!? #thinktoomuch #confused #cartoon #ithinkthereforeiam #philosophy #quotes

Loving these messages and the cartoons—I really want to include more animated elements in my own work, @dittoandmello.bsky.social does it so well!

For anyone keen on seeing more of @vknight.bsky.social's work, his feed is pretty fascinating, and you can find him over at Mastodon too: mastodon.social/@vinceknight... Super smart and entertaining guy! I'll have updates on another upcoming collaboration of ours soon... #GameTheory #PhilosophySky

Seen in the bathroom next to my office on campus. 👀 #noAI #graffiti #college #highered

Have you heard of Braess's Paradox..? Me neither! I sat down with Professor Vincent Knight, a game theorist from Cardiff University in Wales—doing cutting edge game theory research. I learned about Braess's Paradox, carbon clubs, queuing dynamics and many more applications of game theory IRL.

Gabriel Zucman explains the wealth taxes that don't work linktr.ee/boldpolitics

Do you see yourself as a leader? I didn't until I spoke with Stuart Krohn. Coach Krohn on Leadership is up now up with audio, and some new animations! With recordings of Stuart himself, he shares lessons from life lived leading #leaders #rugby #students #futureleaders #coaching

The biggest podcast episode so far... if you haven't listened yet to the Non•Zero•Sum James podcast yet, this is NOT the one to begin with. But if you've been enjoying / following the emergence series you *might* enjoy. #Emergence #Physics #LessWrong #Yudkowski #Traffic #Science

The graviton simulation does some interesting things when you reduce the scope of the forces. Sort of pretty. #simulations #gravity #physics

The next podcast is about emergent gravity, I've link through to the page so you can play the audio while playing with the simulation. Enjoy #Science #Physics #Gravity #Interactive #Simulation #gamedev #game

For any of you on #LessWrong, I've got some of my posts as sequences over there on the topics of: #Polymaths #Moloch #Alignment & #GameTheory. Feel free to nerd-out in the comments.

Feeling dumb is what actual learning feels like.

"a catch for those greedy grubs; each agent remembers who has defected against them and physically avoids them from then on" Aay lmaao

#Doodles #Cartoons #Screenshotsaturday

For any of you on #LessWrong, I've got some of my posts as sequences over there on the topics of: #Polymaths #Moloch #Alignment & #GameTheory. Feel free to nerd-out in the comments.

What series of videos do you find yourself watching/listening-to for hours that you really don’t need the information from, but you enjoy the company? For me, it’s Mike Israetel workout videos.

Acronyms we use everyday with no idea what they mean (speaking for myself): URL: Uniform Resource Locator GPT: Generative Pre-Trained Transformer JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group MP3: Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Audio Layer III SIM: Subscriber Identity Module USB: Universal Serial Bus

Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species and a new branch of life in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. With most species still undescribed, decisions about deep-sea mining risk being made before we know what’s there. Stop TMC's deep-sea mining project. WE NEED REFORM NOW! bsky.app/profile/deep...

"The Human Acceptance Project" was a simple and fun submission from a subscriber; Destiny, as one of our first collaborations—submit your own! #collaborations #creativity #sharing