Curious Obsession – Zvi Mowshowitz

Zvi Mowshowitz is a Magic player, writer, and Hall of Famer. He currently writes about AI, policy and rationality on his Substack, “Don’t Worry About the Vase.”

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Timestamps

0:00:00 Intro
0:02:41 Writing about Artificial Intelligence
0:05:00 Existential risk
0:13:13 Odds of humanity surviving next 100 years?
0:22:10 A future with entities smarter than us
0:27:33 Cats WILL eat you
0:30:52 What makes for great game design?
0:42:47 Pro Tour preparation – winning PT Tokyo
0:57:44 How to build great decks – an insane amount of work
1:12:19 Very good vs obsessive – the Pro Tour skill gap
1:16:34 Sam Black
1:22:18 The Turboland deck
1:25:14 Making Day 2 vs Top 8 of a Pro Tour – HUGE difference
1:33:35 On making, or not making, last minute adjustments
1:43:50 Aristocrats deck
1:48:36 Playing “The Solution” in PT Tokyo without Fact or Fiction
1:54:36 Magic Arena is NOT enough for PT testing
2:07:19 Correlation of playskill to Pro Tour wins
2:11:00 Zvi’s version of Deadguy Red at PT Los Angeles 1998
2:19:15 Career finishes – everything in its right place
2:24:28 Magic is a different game now
2:31:07 Popularizing the Magic set review
2:34:51 How Zvi started writing for the Dojo
2:41:05 Magic in the 90’s – the good and bad
2:53:38 Who had the biggest influence on Zvi?
2:55:20 How does Zvi think about his legacy?