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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Disagree, goal of Darwinian competition is to evolve a better competitive advantage including contested territories.
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only if necessary. When necessary, that gives Boydian approach to war and business which can seem "not in spirit of rules" in sports
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I dont know what the Boydian approach is, but I would argue that the Patriots ignore this criticism to their advantage #deflategate
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. Most accessible intro to Boydian approach (OODA loop) is Chet Richards' 'Certain to Win.' Also Robert Coram's Boyd biography.
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ah OODA - have only heard the high-level but feels like strategies that any fwd sensing tech strat pro should do instinctually
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in any large co, sensing strategists run into same issues
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hence the perennial strategy vs culture dichotomy which tribalists and Boydians tend to resolve differently. It's my litmus test.

