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1/ Darwinian competition is almost the exact opposite of competition as conventionally understood through sports metaphors.
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3/ An idealized Darwinian competition is being more perfectly adapted to a situation relative to the next best adapted organism
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4/ The goal of *conscious* Darwinian competition is to shape/select environment to your strengths to get comfy, be fruitful-and-multiply
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5/ The goal of sports competition is to find closest matched opponent whose relative ranking is illegibly close, and prevail.
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9/ When more Darwinian domains like business look sports-like, the actual contest is over defining the rules to favor yourself.
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