I'm currently writing a blog on #parenting, which has various non-zero-sum aspects to it. Anyone have any questions / statements they'd like addressed?

A perfect non-zero-sum poem from Skyscraper Stan.

This book was MAGIC to me as a kid. #88 (1970s) #books #booksky #classics #readingcommunity #365books

I was explaining to a nihilist today about non-zero dynamics... "we on earth benefit from a near endless stream of energy coming from the sun, which has enabled inefficient vehicles for growth to generate unfathomable emergent phenomena, right up to our own brains and beyond..." It came out nice..

If you saw #ICE abducting a mother & taking her away from her little daughter like what's happening in this video, what would you say or do? What would you have done to prevent what happened in the Holocaust? Do that now while we still have some power. Fight fascism with everything you've got!

Our 50th episode on the podcast! Part 4 of our alignment series "The SCALE of the Issue" This episode looks at humanity's alignment problem at three different scales, the human, the political and an issue at the core of our microscopic biology #biology #alignment #AI #GoalAlignment #Ethics #XRisk

Yo Bluesky! Please make an edit post button.

How do we align the interests of the individual and the collective? We look at examples from history of leaders and thinkers that did just that in the 3rd episode of our series on The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About #Collectivism #Aristotle #Kendi #Mill #JohnStuartMill #JohnKey #Nixon

Just read this great piece by Thomas Johannsen, a perfect resource for exiting the problematic big tech monopolies (and inspiring you to do so). If you've already made the shift to Bluesky for ethical reasons, here are the next steps in your journey toward digital sainthood.

New audio for "WHY?—can we have both fairness & progress?". Check it out on the site or on the podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/6nK6...

Want to unlock your inner genius? This series on Polymaths explore a non-zero-sum approach to innovation. The third and final part dropped today! #Polymath #Genius #Descartes #Newton #Musk #CrossPollination #TransferableSkills #Fails #Success #Obsidian

This could be the defining speech of our time: "the middle powers" #Carney #InternationalRelations #realpolitik #NWO

Thanks to all 10,000 of you!!! You're all non-zero-heroes. I hope you're still enjoying the produce. #thanks

Top pick xxxxx The Agony & The Ecstasy—Irving Stone - xxxxx The Trading Game—Gary Stevenson (close 2nd) xxxxx Agrarian Justice—Thomas Paine xxxxx The Red Queen—Matt Ridley xxxxx Influence—Robert Cialdini xxxxx One Day—David Nicholls (the series was even better) xxxxx Mythos—Stephen Fry

Innovators throughout the ages have found ways to apply knowledge in one area of expertise to another domain to create breakthroughs. This series makes a strong case for "reasoning by analogy". See if this shift in perspective unlocks your inner genius. #Polymaths #Genius #Innovation #Musk

When the rich are buying bunkers, does it not occur to them that that money would be better spent creating a world that doesn’t need bunkers?

Are we living through a new Victorian era? youtu.be/E4D5doaKulk

Sometimes #HackerNews does me a real solid, the right person shares the site and boom! 15k visitors in one day 🤯

There are some problematic messages and role-models influencing young men today. Our new episode 'Masculinity—a case for courage' is conceived through a non-zero-sum lens and draws on modern thinkers who are having a more healthy conversation. #MRAs #mensrights #feminism #gender #AndrewTate #Rogan

Ooopsies. Sorry, the last two links I sent out were meant to have audio content, but they were embedded incorrectly! So, you poor people had to read! Here are the links again, with audio embedded correctly... nonzerosum.games/oneperson.html and nonzerosum.games/masculinity....

I've swapped my morning coffee out for matcha, but I sweeten it with salted caramel protein powder. I call it my "Macho Latte". #Matcha #Macho #GreenTea #Coffee

A special guest episode from software engineer and Aristotle scholar Andrew Tane Glen (also my best mate), voiced by the man himself, introducing the Super-Defector! #Cooperation #Evolution #History #Philosophy #Anthropology

This brilliant. I've experimented with making similar simulators before, but this from Giving What We Can is so well executed and needed right now... some perspective, and just how lucky we (some of us) are. #charity #wealth #redistribution #fairness #equity #equality

I always wonder if I could act heroically if put in a situation that required it. We know some people definitely have the capacity. This episode is based on a post I wrote in a moment of doubt and confusion about humanity on the day of Alexei Navalny's death in prison. #Russia #Putin #Ukraine

There are some problematic messages and role-models influencing young men today. Our new episode 'Masculinity—a case for courage' is conceived through a non-zero-sum lens and draws on modern thinkers who are having a more healthy conversation. #MRAs #mensrights #feminism #gender #AndrewTate #Rogan

I want to solve problems in the world, but many issues seem intractable because they require coordination, like pins in a lock. Understanding coordination is necessary for issues like climate change and inequality. 'Unlocking Solutions' deals with coordination problems and how to solve them.

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Some more stories with diagrams... about #MainCharacterEnergy, #NPCs and #Leadership read or listen :)

I really do unironically feel like this all the time

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Dogs are like a fictional thing you might read about in a fantasy novel, but they actually exist.

Some more stories with diagrams... about #MainCharacterEnergy, #NPCs and #Leadership read or listen :)

The Non-Zero-Sum James podcast is now up on YOUTUBE. Amazing. If that's how you listen to your podcast... here you go.

Ha, just going through my twitter DMs before abandoning it altogether, and realised that back in 2010 I totally ghosted Taika Waititi... #oop #sorry #proxyfamous

Last year I was lucky enough to spend 6 months cutting a beautiful documentary for Leanne Pooley with my long-time editing partner Tim Woodhouse and we just won Best Editing: Documentary / Factual at the NZ Screen Awards!

I’m starting a movement against music in waiting rooms. If I’m sitting for an hour, I want to read, not listen to music I didn’t choose. Who’s with me? #waitingrooms #readers #rant #issues

Has it ever occurred to you that good times never make for great stories, but disasters... often... do? I'm mixing it up this week with a funny story... that wasn't so funny at the time. #mishaps #cars #oops #disaster #tesla #panic nonzerosum.games/nomatterwhereyougetto.html

this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇

Two of my favourite people chatting youtu.be/fcjmd_ClJJo?...

A great piece by Prosocial World on the evolutionary origins of xenophobia.

Has it ever occurred to you that good times never make for great stories, but disasters... often... do? I'm mixing it up this week with a funny story... that wasn't so funny at the time. #mishaps #cars #oops #disaster #tesla #panic nonzerosum.games/nomatterwhereyougetto.html

Galloway thinking outside the box about GLP-1s (not sure why he pits it against AI...)

The Non-Zero-Sum James podcast is now up on YOUTUBE. Amazing. If that's how you listen to your podcast... here you go.

We all want world peace—and that is generally a function of maintaining international relations. So this week’s post aims squarely at... Dr Evil? #GeoPolitics #Conflict #Tariffs #Liberalism #Realpolitik #WorldPeace #Kant #ThomasPaine #ThomasHobbes

We all want world peace—and that is generally a function of maintaining international relations. So this week’s post aims squarely at... Dr Evil? #GeoPolitics #Conflict #Tariffs #Liberalism #Realpolitik #WorldPeace #Kant #ThomasPaine #ThomasHobbes

I prefer the "rising tide lifts all boats" to the "increasing the size of the pie" metaphor. The latter assumes the success of business leads to the alleviation of poverty, the former acknowledges that it's two way: 1. better business → poverty alleviation 2. poverty alleviation → better business

I'm always trying to picture the ideal society. To do this is to balance the freedoms we're willing to forego in order to provide rights we determine to be essential. This episode explores a new way of looking at Rights & Liberties, helping us parse the rhetoric of "big" and "small" government.