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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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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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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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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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14/ For those on Thiel trail, diff is: while Darwinism is infinite game, monopoly as end in itself is sports-like finite game in disguise
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