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

Video Description

Sponsored by Huel - go to https://www.huel.com/deepdive and with your first order you’ll get a free t-shirt and shaker. Sponsored by Trading 212 - To get free fractional shares worth up to 100 EUR/GBP, you can open an account with Trading 212 through this link https://trading212.com/promocodes/ALI. Terms apply. This is not financial advice. When investing, your capital is at risk and you may get back less than invested. Past performance doesn’t guarantee future results. Sponsored by WeWork - visit https://www.we.co/ali and use the code ‘ALI’ at checkout to redeem 50% off your first booking. 📚 Check Out My New York Times Bestselling Book Feel-Good Productivity! 👉 https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/podcast 📧 Sign up for LifeNotes - my weekly newsletter 👉 https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/podcast 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. 00:00 Intro 04:34 Game show 17:58 Risk taking 24:20 Poker as a career nowadays 33:20 Building psychological resilience 37:50 Men vs women in poker 43:03 How much are people making from professional poker? 46:00 Winning the European Poker Tour 49:13 Getting into the focus mindset 1:02:19 Relationship with money after winning the tournament 1:06:31 Effective Altruism 1:12:24 Positive sum philosophy 1:20:40 Quitting poker 1:26:46 Interest in AI 1:37:32 Actions people can take 1:44:46 Thoughts on social media 1:57:40 The infinite game 2:01:19 Exploring the unexplainable 2:06:25 Books recommendation 2:08:19 Things to try out 🔗 CONNECT WITH LIV 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@LivBoeree 💻 Website - https://livboeree.com/ 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/liv_boeree/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Liv_Boeree 👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/livboeree 🌐 Longview Philantrophy - https://www.longview.org/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel - @aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 📚 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/ 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 Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/ 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover the philosophies, strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier and more productive lives. 🎧 LISTEN FOR FREE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZkflC... RSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/deep-dive 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜