– Game Theory: How lessons from poker can help you build resilience, and make better decisions for your life.
– Effective Altruism: How humans can become better philanthropists by using logic and reason to figure out the most high expected value thing we can do to solve the worlds most pressing problems.
– Safe AI Development – Why AI is the most high-stakes creation by humans to date and what their implications are for our future.
Enjoy!
00:00 Intro
04:34 Game show
17:58 Risk taking
24:20 Poker as a career nowadays
33:20 Building psychological resilience
37:50 Men vs women in poker
43:03 How much are people making from professional poker?
46:00 Winning the European Poker Tour
49:13 Getting into the focus mindset
52:52 Approach to energy healing
1:02:19 Relationship with money after winning the tournament
1:06:31 Effective Altruism
1:12:24 Positive sum philosophy
1:14:20 Poker with partners
1:20:40 Quitting poker
1:26:46 Interest in AI
1:37:32 Actions people can take
1:39:00 Moloch: Unhealthy competition
1:44:46 Thoughts on social media
1:57:40 The infinite game
2:01:19 Exploring the unexplainable
2:06:25 Books recommendation
2:08:19 Things to try out
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📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED
Chris Sparks Deep Dive Episode – https://youtu.be/_Aode5viwOA
Liv’s TedTalk – https://youtu.be/nisSeC81u2M
DeepMind – https://www.deepmind.com/
80,000 hours podcast – https://80000hours.org/podcast/
Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander – https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Moloch: The Beauty Wars – https://youtu.be/fifVuhgvQQ8
Moloch: The Media Wars – https://youtu.be/PRz54V7rU4U
Finite And Infinite Games: A Vision of Life As Play and Possibility by James Carse – https://geni.us/G5x3Um
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock – https://geni.us/AegS
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky – https://geni.us/AbLlbD
The Story Of Us by Tim Urban – https://bit.ly/3mhDx5b
📄 SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT
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