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James Stephen Brown

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I write and talk about game theory, moral philosophy, ethical economics and artificial intelligence—focused on non-zero-sum games and their importance in solving the world’s problems.

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

Rights & Liber­ties—are opposites

James Stephen Brown16 Aug 2025 0:20 UTC
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Saidi, My Friend—what do we owe to each other?

James Stephen Brown9 Aug 2025 19:41 UTC
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Emer­gence Is Beau­tiful—beauty and mean­ing in an en­tropic universe

James Stephen Brown31 Jul 2025 19:00 UTC
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Repli­ca­tors—Pan­dora’s dan­ger­ous children

James Stephen Brown30 Jul 2025 22:39 UTC
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On The Shoulders of Sub­strates—how one phe­nomenon lays the foun­da­tion for the next

James Stephen Brown20 Jul 2025 21:11 UTC
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Emer­gent Grav­ity—or­der out of chaos

James Stephen Brown18 Jul 2025 19:26 UTC
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Emer­gence vs En­tropy—a uni­ver­sal paradox

James Stephen Brown16 Jul 2025 21:31 UTC
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Con­way’s Game of Life—com­plex­ity emerges from simplicity

James Stephen Brown16 Jul 2025 4:42 UTC
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Liv Bo­eree—non-zero hero

James Stephen Brown13 Jul 2025 23:49 UTC
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Moloch’s Demise—solv­ing the origi­nal problem

James Stephen Brown13 Jul 2025 23:29 UTC
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4 Ways Moloch is Ruin­ing Your Life!—a lis­ti­cle that shows Moloch is all around us, even in listicles

James Stephen Brown13 Jul 2025 23:27 UTC
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Win-Win-Win Ethics—Rec­on­cil­ing Con­se­quen­tial­ism, Virtue Ethics and Deontology

James Stephen Brown13 Jul 2025 1:42 UTC
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Bat­tle of the Sexes—how to solve any (solv­able) dispute

James Stephen Brown3 Jul 2025 19:21 UTC
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The Ul­ti­ma­tum Game—take it or leave it

James Stephen Brown3 Jul 2025 19:05 UTC
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The Pri­soner’s Dilemma—A Prob­le­matic Poster-Child

James Stephen Brown2 Jul 2025 19:10 UTC
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Emer­gence Spirals—what Yud­kowsky gets wrong

James Stephen Brown8 Jun 2025 19:02 UTC
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The Cos­mic Lottery

James Stephen Brown24 May 2025 4:05 UTC
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The Sys­tem Didn’t, and Doesn’t Need to be This Way ~ Thomas Paine on Eco­nomic Justice

James Stephen Brown19 Apr 2025 5:16 UTC
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The Era of the Divi­d­ual—are we fal­ling apart?

James Stephen Brown12 Apr 2025 22:35 UTC
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Arusha Per­pet­ual Chicken—an un­likely iter­ated game

James Stephen Brown6 Apr 2025 22:56 UTC
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