Kristian Rönn - The Darwinian Trap

Kristian Rönn discusses his amazing book The Darwinian Trap - Macroeconomics & Game theoretic Imagineering: avoiding the minefields of the tragedy of the commons, and the search for ideal Nash equilibriums - in the hope that we can stave off the onslaught of Darwinian Demons, and ultimately find some nash equilibrium of fairness for all humanity, sentient AI an non-human animals.

Book can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Darwinian-T...

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:02 How do evolutionary pressures shape our behaviours?
8:30 Vulnerable World Hypothesis,
8:57 Spiegelman's Monster & Darwinian Demons
16:38 The Last Transition (in evolution)
26:22 Relying on the good nature of individuals
27:14 Gerrymandering
29:03 Big companies concerned about AI Safety are now locked in AI Arms Race
33:21 Miopic short-sightedness
38:07 The Fragility of Life Hypothesis
48:04 The holy grail of cooperative alignment
51:58 Darwinian pressures in the practise of science
58:03 Defeating darwinian demons
59:07 Hope: the world is very interconnected
1:08:09 The Great Bootstrap
1:10:03 Gamifying reputation markets
1:14:25 Goodheart's Law & reputation hacking
1:20:02 Improving incentive landscape though genome reform
1:24:15 Moral enhancement
1:28:35 We were unprepared for the fallouts from social media



Bio: Kristian Rönn is the CEO and co-founder of Normative. He has a background in mathematics, philosophy, computer science and artificial intelligence.Before he started Normative he worked at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute on issues related to global catastrophic risks.

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