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Is complexity the new frontier of physics? How should we approach metaphysical uncertainty? What makes a great Physicist?

These are just some of the questions covered in this Win-Win episode with the incredible Sean Carroll. Sean is a theoretical physicist and philosopher who specializes in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and philosophy of science.



Chapters

00:01:59 - New Discoveries of the Webb Telescope
00:11:05 - Complexity The New Frontier in Physics
00:16:42 - How Physicists See The World
00:20:14 - Observing Trends in Complexity
00:26:21 - How To Approach Metaphysical (Un)certainty
00:30:41 - Quantum Measurement Problem
00:33:49 - Many Worlds vs Copenhagen Interpretation
00:40:35 - Emergence
00:44:40 - Information under Classical and Quantum Mechanics
00:50:20 - Democracy As A Physical System
00:56:35 - Decision Theory In Many Worlds
01:02:03 - Competition in Academia
01:07:20 - Academic Publishing
01:12:57 - The Problem with Superintelligence
01:23:59 - Computing and Theories of Mind
01:31:26 - Poetic Naturalism
01:41:58 - What Makes A Great Physicist?
01:44:29 - Are There Any Breakthroughs Left?
01:52:08 - Credences of Hypotheses



Links
♾️ Sean's Website https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/
♾️ The Bigger Picture https://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Picture-...
♾️ Sean's Youtube    / @seancarroll  

Credits
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Edited and Mixed by Ryan Kessler

The Win-Win Podcast:
Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.

Nihilism has become all too popular, and this man is on a mission to fix that! David is a philosopher and technologist focussed on understanding and healing what he calls the "Nihilism Crisis" - the crisis of meaning the world is currently suffering from, especially as it transitions into the AI age.

If you're interested in AI alignment, game theory, incentive design, Moloch and competition, this is very much a conversation for you.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:05 - Defeating Moloch
00:08:02 - The Meaning Crisis

00:14:39 - The Third Attractor
00:15:29 - Post-Nihilism

00:19:17 - The Four Abandonments

00:30:13 - Complexity Destruction & Extremism
00:36:40 - Radical Alignment & Body-First Living

00:44:30 - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
00:48:04 - Accelerationists & Self Abandonment

00:50:43 - Competition & Status Games

00:52:28 - AI & Why Silicon Valley's Vibe Seems Off

00:58:14 - Sam Altman as a High Priest?

00:59:02 - Summarizing Everything so Far
01:01:33 - Mythic Archetypes

01:07:50 - Liv's Favourite Axioms
01:11:35 - Neurodivergence
01:16:17 - Culture Wars
01:26:26 - Creating the Third Attractor State

Links:
♾️ David's video: Moloch is Losing! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiCUbJAwmgk
♾️ Slate Star Codex
https://slatestarcodex.com/
♾️ John Vervaeke - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
https://johnvervaeke.com/series/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis/
♾️ Daniel Schmactenberger - Finding the Third Attractor State
https://consilienceproject.org/media/daniel-schmachtenberger-in-search-of-the-third-attractor-part-1/
♾️ “Good Enough” Parenting study
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190508134511.htm
♾️ The Status Game - Will Storr
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58642436-the-status-game

♾️ An Immanent Metaphysics https://www.amazon.com/Immanent-Metaphysics-Forrest-Landry/dp/B0CPSJ647N
♾️ Roger Walsh - Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes
https://drrogerwalsh.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/LMH-Summary-for-California-Psychologist-2018-12-20.pdf
♾️ Self Determination Theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
♾️ Patricia Churchland - Brain Trust
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691180977/braintrust
♾️ William Ury - Power of the Positive No
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/182089/the-power-of-a-positive-no-by-william-ury/
♾️ The Fourth Turning - William Strauss, Neil Howe
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/174648/the-fourth-turning-by-william-strauss/

Credits:
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei
♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt

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How literally should we take the US Constitution? What about the bible? Should we experiment with radical honesty with strangers?

Those are just some of the questions human guinea pig A.J. Jacobs spends his life trying to answer. An author and journalist, he regularly immerses himself into extreme social experiments to understand the world better (and then usually writes a book about it). And this conversation does not disappoint -- we explore his discoveries on everything from love and relationships, competitive puzzling, US politics, health... one of my favourite conversations so far!

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:06 - Immersions
00:05:47 - Maximizing Health
00:11:14 - Living Biblically
00:19:17 - Living Constitutionally
00:49:50 - Gratitude Experiment
00:53:03 - Extreme Outsourcing
00:55:31 - Relationship Stuff
01:01:13 - Radical Honesty
01:10:43 - Choosing Projects
01:17:43 - Tips for Building Habits
01:22:51 - The Power of Puzzles
01:29:19 - Relationship with Competition

Links:
♾️ AJ's Books
https://ajjacobs.com/books/
♾️ The Year of Living Constitutionally https://ajjacobs.com/books/the-year-of-living-constitutionally/
♾️ Cochrane Report
https://www.cochrane.org/
♾️ Cold Takes Blog
https://www.cold-takes.com/
♾️ The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/49081/the-4-hour-workweek-expanded-and-updated-by-timothy-ferriss/
♾️ The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555240/the-scout-mindset-by-julia-galef/
♾️ Stickk.com
https://www.stickk.com/

Credits:
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei
♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt

The Win-Win Podcast:
Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.

Why did Rome fall? What can we learn from past civilization collapses to protect our own? How do we fix our Institutions? In this Win-Win episode I speak to Samo Burja - a leading geopolitical analyst and founder of the intelligence brief Bismarck Analysis.

Samo is a prolific writer on nature of power, leadership, bureaucracy and governance. If you're worried about the health of our institutions and sense-making, this is the episode for you.



Chapters

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:40 - Common Themes of Historical Civilizations

00:05:13 - Loss of Knowledge

00:13:38 - Impact of Demographic Collapse

00:17:06 - Indigenous Knowledge Loss

00:21:13 - Role of Institutions

00:24:01 - The Succession Problem & Knowledge Loss

00:38:34 - Bureaucracy and Goodhart's Law

00:45:52 - Democracy and Monarchy

00:50:44 - Sensemaking & AI

01:07:13 - Building New Civilizational Games

01:23:27 - Great Founder Theory

01:33:34 - What Makes a Great Founder?

01:38:53 - How to Avoid Getting Drunk on Power

01:44:50 - Democratization of Technology & Vulnerable Worlds

01:53:52 - Geopolitical Predictions



Links

♾️ Bismarck Brief https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/

♾️ Samo's Website https://samoburja.com/

♾️ Samo's Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@UC4QYBbgLkGaULStiC5yc_1Q



Credits

♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree

♾️ Produced by Raymond Wei

♾️ Edit and Audio Mix by Ryan Kessler



The Win-Win Podcast:

Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.

Polarization, echo chambers... how do we fix the problem of biased news? That's a problem today's Win-Win guest has dedicated her life to solving.

Harleen Kaur is the founder of Ground News, a news aggregator platform that provides overviews of what different media outlets across the political spectrum report, so that consumers can get a clearer and more impartial perspective. We explore the deeper questions of WHY we’re so divided in the first place, and what are the most promising ways of healing that divide. An especially important topic as we head into the age of synthetic AI generated media!

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:55 - Harleen’s Background
00:09:10 - Ground News
00:22:07 - Advertising Model Leading to Polarization
00:31:30 - Positive Effects from Ground News
00:35:22 - Reaching GenZ and Boomers
00:40:15 - Other Solutions To the Media Moloch
00:48:22 - Role of AI to Combat Media Bias
00:52:46 - Jonathan Haidt Solutions for Social Media
01:03:22 - Win-Win News

Links:
♾️ Ground News
https://ground.news/
Ground News Browser Extension
https://ground.news/extension
♾️ Sentiment Mining 500 Years Of History: Is The World Really Darkening?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/05/14/sentiment-mining-500-years-of-history-is-the-world-really-darkening/?sh=1725a43e35ef
♾️ Fairness Doctrine 1949
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine
♾️ Paradox of Polarisation Study
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-polarization-paradox-elected-officials-and-voters-have-shifted-in-opposite-directions/
♾️ Jonathan Haidt - Social Media
https://jonathanhaidt.com/social-media/

The Win-Win Podcast:
Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.


Credits:
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei
♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt

Is it possible to solve ocean pollution by turning the packaging industry into a closed-loop economy?

Wes Carter thinks so. Wes is the Founder of a New Earth Project and President of Atlantic Packaging, on a personal mission to stop the significant pollution the packaging industry causes. In this episode we hear what it would take to close the loop on the economy via new types of biodegradable materials that could replace plastic and other common pollutants. We also discuss which types of recycling work, and which are rubbish. And of course, in true Win-Win Podcast style, we hear about what it would take to change the game so that companies (and their customers) are properly incentivized to account for the true environmental costs of the production and consumption.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:35 - Wes's Story & the Packaging Industry
00:10:07 - Circular Economies
00:24:30 - Potential Solutions
00:31:11 - How to Align Incentives?
00:46:22 - Are Consumers Responsible?
00:51:41 - A New Earth Project
00:58:06 - Psychedelic Experiences
01:08:38 - Carbon Offsets
01:13:30 - Are Shareholders bad for the environment?
01:23:14 - Amazon's Progress
01:27:38 - Advice to Young Entrepreneurs

Links:
♾️ A New Earth Project
https://anewearthproject.com/
♾️ Atlantic Packaging
https://www.atlanticpkg.com/
♾️ Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
♾️ A Journey to a New Earth Series https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detai...

The Win-Win Podcast:
Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.

Watch the previous episode with Ocean Cleanup Founder Boyan Slat here: https://youtu.be/QEYbLN-LC5k?si=XaV2j...

Credits:
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei
♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt