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James Stephen Brown

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Atheist, utilitarian*, artist, coder, documentarian and polymath (jokes.. but I do believe the synergy of many fields can lead to novel insights).

I write about moral philosophy, artificial intelligence and game theory—in particular non-zero-sum games and their importance in solving the world’s problems. Most of my writing originates on my personal website nonzerosum.games.

I have admitted I am wrong at least 10 times on the internet.


* I don’t really class Utilitarianism as an ethical framework in competition with other ethical frameworks, I see it more as a calculus that most people, when it comes down to it, use to determine or assess the generalised virtues, principles and laws that they live by (well, at least I do).

Both-Side­sism—When Fair & Balanced Goes Wrong

James Stephen Brown2 Nov 2024 3:04 UTC
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A Case for Con­scious Sig­nifi­cance rather than Free Will.

James Stephen Brown25 Oct 2024 23:20 UTC
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2 comments6 min readLW link

Method­ol­ogy: Con­ta­gious Beliefs

James Stephen Brown19 Oct 2024 3:58 UTC
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0 comments7 min readLW link

Con­ta­gious Beliefs—Si­mu­lat­ing Poli­ti­cal Alignment

James Stephen Brown13 Oct 2024 0:27 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
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An In­ter­ac­tive Shap­ley Value Explainer

James Stephen Brown28 Sep 2024 5:01 UTC
41 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
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The Other Ex­is­ten­tial Crisis

James Stephen Brown21 Sep 2024 1:16 UTC
9 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Could Things Be Very Differ­ent?—How His­tor­i­cal In­er­tia Might Blind Us To Op­ti­mal Solutions

James Stephen Brown11 Sep 2024 9:53 UTC
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0 comments8 min readLW link
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We Don’t Just Let Peo­ple Die—So What Next?

James Stephen Brown3 Aug 2024 1:04 UTC
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8 comments10 min readLW link

Un­lock­ing Solu­tions—By Un­der­stand­ing Co­or­di­na­tion Problems

James Stephen Brown27 Jul 2024 4:52 UTC
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4 comments5 min readLW link
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Why Peo­ple in Poverty Make Bad Decisions

James Stephen Brown15 Jul 2024 23:40 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
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Sav­ing Lives Re­duces Over-Pop­u­la­tion—A Counter-In­tu­itive Non-Zero-Sum Game

James Stephen Brown28 Jun 2024 19:29 UTC
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0 comments5 min readLW link
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Cap­i­tal­is­ing On Trust—A Simulation

James Stephen Brown21 Jun 2024 4:43 UTC
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0 comments1 min readLW link
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Mas­culinity—A Case For Courage

James Stephen Brown4 Jun 2024 0:04 UTC
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0 comments7 min readLW link
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Moloch—An Illus­trated Primer

James Stephen Brown26 May 2024 1:04 UTC
5 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
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A Pos­i­tive Dou­ble Stan­dard—Self-Help Prin­ci­ples Work For In­di­vi­d­u­als Not Populations

James Stephen Brown22 May 2024 21:37 UTC
8 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

What Are Non-Zero-Sum Games?—A Primer

James Stephen Brown18 May 2024 9:19 UTC
4 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Why I’ll Keep My Crummy Draw­ings—How Gen­er­a­tive AI Art Won’t Sup­plant… Art.

James Stephen Brown15 May 2024 19:30 UTC
18 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Emer­gence Is a Univer­sal Non-Zero-Sum Phenomenon.

James Stephen Brown14 May 2024 8:06 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
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The Align­ment Prob­lem No One Is Talk­ing About

James Stephen Brown10 May 2024 18:34 UTC
10 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
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