Win-Win with Liv Boeree

Mar 19 2025 40 ep. 89 mins 331
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The Win-Win Podcast is an exploration of the games that drive our world. Created by poker champion and risk expert Liv Boeree, it explores solutions to humanity's biggest issues through conversations with leading thinkers. It also explores the more personal topic of competition, and how it manifests across society. If you want to understand how to turn win-lose dilemmas into win-wins, this is the show for you. Don't hate the players, change the game.

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#38 - Manu Meel - Healing Political Polarization

Mar 19 2025 89 mins  
Protests, lock-ins, encampments…the culture on university campuses is certainly fraught these days! As political discourse worsens among young people, I couldn’t think of anyone better to explore this issue with than Manu Meel. Manu is the founder and CEO of Bridge USA; a movement to help students and other young people engage in constructive dialogue and disagreement to improv

#37 - Tim Urban - Beating Procrastination, Parenthood, and Politics

Mar 13 2025 96 mins  
In this episode of the Win Win Podcast, Liv and Igor sit down with Wait But Why creator Tim Urban to explore everything from his unexpected pet tortoise, Winston, to the mind-bending implications of superintelligent AI.We hear about his latest foray into book writing, and how he’s structured his workflow to overcome his damn procrastination monkey. The crew also discuss such clas

#00 - Daniel Schmachtenberger - AI, Capitalism, Misalignment & Moloch

Feb 20 2025 90 mins  
A deep dive into the game theory and exponential growth underlying our modern economic system, and how recent advancements in AI are poised to turn up the pressure on that system -- and our wider environment -- in ways we have never seen before. Not a conversation for the faint hearted, but crucial nonetheless. Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project

#36 - Bill Perkins - Space and The Future of Satellite Imaging

Jan 29 2025 24 mins  
In this episode of the Win-Win podcast we are floating off the coast of Starbase, watching the live launch of Starship 6 with Bill Perkins. Bill is a founder of two satellite imaging companies that aim to address environmental issues by making satellite data—once inaccessible to the public—widely available, revolutionizing everything from climate monitoring to illegal fishing

#35 - Allison Duettman - Cooperation, Technology and the Power of Existential Hope

Jan 23 2025 113 mins  
Explore the future of cooperation and technology in this thought-provoking episode of the Win Win Podcast! Liv chats to Allison Duettman from the Foresight Institute about how to harness emerging technologies like AI, nanotechnology, and blockchain to create a freer, more coordinated world. They explore concepts like "existential hope," "multipolar active shields,&qu

#34 - Igor Kurganov - Liv's World Series Poker Win and Fixing Social Media

Jan 09 2025 51 mins  
n case you missed it, Liv just won a record-breaking $2,800,000 in the World Series of Poker last month In this episode, she and Igor discuss her victory, why it represents a win-win for both her and animals... how to fix social media... Magnus Carlsen's jeans drama, a drunken game of backgammon and much more. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro and Backgammon 2:45 - Liv’s World Series of P

#33 - Alexandra and Andrea Botez - Competition, Sisterhood and the Social Media Game

Dec 22 2024 83 mins  
The Botez sisters are no strangers to competition. But how do they manage their competitive urges? How does it affect their relationship to one another, as sisters? These are just some of the many intimate topics we cover in today's Win-Win episode. Best known for their hilarious chess streaming videos, Andrea and Alexandra Botez are some of the world's most celebrated gamers - b

#32 - Scott Aaronson - The Race to AGI and Quantum Supremacy

Dec 04 2024 145 mins  
How fast is the AI race really going? What is the current state of Quantum Computing? What actually *is* the P vs NP problem? - former OpenAI researcher and theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson joins Liv and Igor to discuss everything quantum, AI and consciousness. We hear about his experience working on OpenAI's "superalignment team", whether quantum computers might bre

#31 - Kristian Rönn - Escaping The Moloch Trap

Oct 31 2024 65 mins  
How do we escape Moloch’s trap for good? In this special Burning Man edition of Win-Win, Liv forgoes the usual purple chairs for dusty playa to chat with Kristian Rönn. Kristian is the CEO and co-founder of Normative, a platform for helping industries strive for net zero emissions. With intellectual roots in Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and his own mission to create

#30 - Nate Silver - Predicting Elections in Chaotic Times

Oct 03 2024 95 mins  
Can we still accurately model elections in such chaotic times? Are prediction markets the future of news? Nate Silver thinks so - Nate is a renowned election analyst, author and former professional poker player. He's the founder of FiveThirtyEight, whose statistical models revolutionized election forecasting, earning him national acclaim. His two books "On The Edge: The Art of Ri