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James Stephen Brown

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Utilitarian* atheist, artist, coder, documentarian and polymath (jokes.. but I don’t believe to be a jack of all trades necessitates one being a master of none, rather that the synergy of many fields can lead to novel insights—and I also just want to know everything!).

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 https://​​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 more the generalised virtues, principles and laws that they live by (well, at least I do).

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
12 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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