Archive - Exploring Cooperation

Semiotic Grounding as a Precondition for Safe and Cooperative AI

Cooperative AI fails unless its words reliably point to the world.

Jul 27 •

May 2025

The Fragility of Naive Dynamism

Movement alone isn’t progress, and there are dangers in ignoring dimensions and directions of acceleration.

May 19 •

April 2025

Grounded Ghosts in the Machine - Friston Blankets, Mirror Neurons, and the Quest for Cooperative AI

Can you truly cooperate with an agent that has no stakes in the outcome? Current AI systems, despite appearances, might be faking cooperation—and if…

Apr 10 •

January 2025

Let History Be Your (Fallible) Guide

A digression on historical inevitabilities and contingent facts

Jan 26 •

December 2024

The Path to Utopia

Can humanity escape the traps of inflexibility, path dependence, and inadequate equilibria to create a flourishing future? We discuss how cooperation…

Dec 25, 2024 •

Cooperation (vs?) Anarchy

Why ideals fail, why communism is similar to anarchy, and some personal digressions.

Dec 1, 2024 •

November 2024

Cooperation Working At Scale?

Why cooperation sometimes works well at scale, even globally, and how multilevel game theory and higher dimensional issues that make cooperation harder…

Nov 20, 2024 •

"Zero Sum," Framing Games, and Pareto

Exploring why cake cutting and salary negotiations are only zero-sum if you assume they are, and why positive-sum is different than pareto improving.

Nov 12, 2024 •

Differences, Cooperative Goals, and Optimization

Following the previous discussion of why people make decisions and have the preferences they do, it’s important to highlight something obvious - that…

Nov 3, 2024 •

October 2024

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