Video and transcript of talk on "Can goodness compete?"
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From a public talk on long-term equilibria post-AGI, given at Mox in SF in July 2025.
(This is the video and transcript of a public talk I gave at Mox in San Francisco in July 2025, on long-term equilibria post-AGI. It’s a longer version of the talk I gave at this workshop. The slides are also available here.) Thank you. Okay. Hi. Thanks for coming. So: can goodness compete? It's a classic question, and it crops up constantly in a certain strand of futurism, so I'm going to try to analyze it and understand it more precisely. And in particular I want to distinguish between a few different variants, some of which are more fundamental problems than others. And then I want to…
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