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Mar 2023
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Liv Boeree: Poker Rules Of Life, Game Th...

Ali Abdaal
About this episode

Liv Boeree is a World Series of Poker and European Poker Tour champion, and the only female player in history to win both a WSOP bracelet and an EPT event. Liv’s story is super interesting, because she actually has a degree in astrophysics and combined her science background and passion for games to get into the world of poker and win all these championships.These days Liv spends her time as a science communicator and games specialist, and focuses on educating others about how to apply scientific rational thinking techniques and things like game theory to the decisions we make in our everyday lives. Navigating through decisions in life can be a pretty difficult sometimes, but the single thing this conversation taught me is that, there’s a lot of principles we can steal from poker (like thinking processes and resilience strategies) to help us along the journey. In the conversation we talk about a whole bunch of things and by the end of the episode you’ll learn:

  • Game Theory: How lessons from poker can help you build resilience, and make better decisions for your life.
  • Effective Altruism: How humans can become better philanthropists by using logic and reason to figure out the most high expected value thing we can do to solve the worlds most pressing problems.
  • Safe AI Development - Why AI is the most high-stakes creation by humans to date and what their implications are for our future.

Enjoy!

Liv Boeree: Poker Rules For Life, Game Theory, AI & Effective Altruism

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Website - https://livboeree.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/liv_boeree/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Liv_Boeree
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/livboeree
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/livboeree/

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RESOURCES MENTIONED
Chris Sparks Deep Dive Episode - https://youtu.be/_Aode5viwOA
Liv’s TedTalk - https://youtu.be/nisSeC81u2M
DeepMind - https://www.deepmind.com/
80,000 hours podcast - https://80000hours.org/podcast/
Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Moloch: The Beauty Wars - https://youtu.be/fifVuhgvQQ8
Moloch: The Media Wars - https://youtu.be/PRz54V7rU4U
Finite And Infinite Games: A Vision of Life As Play and Possibility by James Carse - https://geni.us/G5x3Um
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock - https://geni.us/AegS
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky - https://geni.us/AbLlbD
The Story Of Us by Tim Urban - https://bit.ly/3mhDx5b

SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT
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