1/ Darwinian competition is almost the exact opposite of competition as conventionally understood through sports metaphors.
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2/ An idealized sports competition is perfectly fair, like a coin toss, with handicaps added if necessary
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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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6/ The goal of Darwinian competition is to occupy uncontested territory.
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7/ Fundamentally sports competition is to strive maximally against an equal and win as proof that "God" has chosen your side as his people.
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8/ Winning without a fight or with a walkover is great for Darwinist, disappointing for Sportsist.
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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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10/ Fighting over market-share like a sport is a last resort. Just like attrition warfare is last resort for armies.
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11/ Point is: if you don't specify what sort of "competition" you're thinking of, you could be saying the opposite of what you mean.
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12/ Sportsists are fighting for trophies, Darwinists for territory. Ultimate trophy is being God-chosen. Ultimate turf-claim is monopoly.
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13/ Finally for those following Carse bunny trail: Darwinism is an infinite game. The goal is not to win but to keep playing: survival
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