Research Call Friday 31st Oct: Moloch and Evolutionary Game Theory

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Hi folks, it’s my turn this week.

I’m planning to share some ideas in progress about the concept of Moloch (developed by Scott Alexander, and often seen as central to understanding the metacrisis) and how Evolutionary Game Theory can be used to clarify both what Moloch is, and how we should respond to it.

This ties into some previous discussions here on the forum about game theory and values.

And we now have a Luma calendar for these meetings that should make things a bit more accessible:

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Looking forward to it.

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Question on the time. Per Luma, the session is scheduled for: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT. But up till now, these calls have always been 8:00 AM -9:00 AM PDT. Is this an intentional shift? Or an artifact of something else?

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Probably due to the fact European daylight savings time ended on the weekend…

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Makes sense. Our daylight time ends in the upcoming weekend. So the hour changes for me this time only.