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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

Sustainability. It's a buzzword that gets lots of headlines, but what if our definition of it is incomplete? That's the view of Hannah Ritchie - Hannah is the lead Environmental Scientist at OurWorldinData.org - a leading data science organization that analyses data to find out the true state of our world.

In today's conversation we explore her findings on the planet's biggest issues. We discuss which problems are over-hyped, which ones are under-hyped, and most importantly: How do we become sustainable AND keep the high quality of life we're used to? That would indeed be a Win-Win.



Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:06 - Redefining Sustainability
00:09:12 - The Perception Gap
00:22:09 - Degrowth Movement
00:26:46 - Jevon's Paradox
00:31:38 - Carbon Tax & Rethinking Incentives
00:35:45 - Latest Climate Data
00:43:38 - Geoengineering Solutions
00:50:03 - Impact of Farming
00:59:42 - Environmental Success Stories
01:05:12 - Badly Behaving Businesses
01:18:33 - Most Surprising Fact on OWID
01:26:18 - Relationship with Competition
01:31:38 - Win-Win Futures





Links:

♾️ Not the End of The World by Hannah Ritchie

https://www.nottheendoftheworld.co.uk/

♾️ Our World in Data

https://ourworldindata.org/

♾️ Hannah’s TED Talk - Are We the Last Generation or the First Sustainable One?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3VVrggKz4

♾️ Hans Rosling - The Best Stats You’ve Ever Seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

♾️ Nate Hagen’s Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@thegreatsimplification



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 Philosopher Nick Bostrom here:

https://youtu.be/o28s-mnykdE


Credits:

♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree

♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei

♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt


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What would life look like in a fully automated world? How would we derive meaning in a world of superintelligence?

Today's Win-Win episode is all about utopias, dystopias and thought experiments, because I'm talking to Professor Nick Bostrom. Nick is one of the world’s leading philosophers - he's a leading thinker on the nature of consciousness, AI, catastrophic risks, cosmology… he’s also the guy behind the Simulation Hypothesis, the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment, the seminal AI book Superintelligence... Off into the hypotheti-sphere we go!

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
01:42 - Why a book on Utopia?
03:31 - Different types of Utopias
11:40 - How to find purpose in a solved world?
18:31 - Potential Limits to Technology
22:34 - How would Utopians approach Competition?
30:24 - Superintelligence
34:39 - Vulnerable World Hypothesis
39:48 - Thinking in Superpositions
41:24 - Solutions to the Vulnerable World?
46:34 - Aligning Markets to Defensive Tech
48:43 - Digital Minds & Uploading
52:25 - AI Consciousness
55:08 - Outro

Links:
Nick’s Website - https://nickbostrom.com/
Anthropic Bias Paper - https://anthropic-principle.com/
Deep Utopia Book - https://nickbostrom.com/booklink/deep...
Superintelligence book - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Vulnerable World Hypothesis - https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulner...
Orthogonality Thesis - https://nickbostrom.com/superintellig...
Simulation Argument - https://simulation-argument.com/
Digital Minds - https://nickbostrom.com/papers/intere...
Future of Humanity Institute - https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/

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 & Igor Kurganov
♾️  Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei
♾️  Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt

What sacrifices does it take to be a pro tennis player? Is it possible to have a healthy mindset at the highest stakes?


Marcus Daniell understands it all - he has played professional tennis for over 20 years, a career that has earned him an Olympic medal and a whole lot of wisdom around the nature of competition. He is also the founder of High Impact Athletes, a movement of professional athletes who donate to highly effective charities.



Chapters

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:06:50 - Overlap of Tennis and Poker

00:13:56 - Dynamic Between Pro Tennis Players

00:22:00 - How competitiveness changes with age

00:29:08 - Strategies of Pro Players

00:31:11 - Competition As Young Athlete

00:31:57 - Playing Doubles

00:51:52 - Technology and Tennis

01:00:00 - Evolution of Tennis

01:05:44 - Moloch Traps in Tennis

01:11:10 - Enhanced Olympics

01:19:57 - Tennis Payout Structures

01:28:00 - High Impact Athletes and Philanthropy

01:49:43 - Kindest Things Someone Has Done

01:51:53 - Proudest Moment



Links

♾️ High Impact Athletes

https://www.highimpactathletes.org/

♾️ Marcus Daniell Twitter

https://twitter.com/marcusdaniell

♾️ Giving What We Can Pledge

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge


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.