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title: 'Pre-Party Prep: Competition'
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# Pre-Party Prep: Competition
March 24, 2022

#### Initial Prompt

How to define success beyond strength, efficiency, vanquishing competition?
Let's explore "healthy" competition in DAOs, orgs, companies more generally.
Is this also the MOLOCH (rivalrous human nature) that we are trying to slay?
How might we think beyond capitalistic, competitive structures?
How do we incentivize them?
How might we confront the competitive forces within ourselves (the individual)?
How is competition programmed into our values?
Might we learn to program differently?

Is this different from COLLABORATION? Are they opposed, or mutually exclusive?
Is this different from COOPERATION? Might we move towards “cooperative competition” or some similar transitional state?

There’s LORE to competition: opposing forces battling to the death!

What are we competing for?
What are we optimizing for?
How might DAO tooling shift our relations to competition, locally and generally?

(Let’s be sensitive that we are not bad mouthing other communities or protocols!)

#### Followup Convo

what's the difference between healthy competition and unhealthy?
    - Healthy vs unhealthy: positive vs zero sum competition?
    - Related to transparency and cooperation: working together to make the best things, together.
is there different stages of ethereum growth where we will see healthy competition break down to more cut throat 'old world' tactics?
what drives competition, things like scarcity, TAM, PMF?
can you have innovation without it?
Is positive sum a farce?
    - Is this related to optimistic vs pessimistic outlooks?
    - The essential failure is in language. The non-dichtomy will fail language's capacity to explain it.
In human nature Is competition or collaboration stronger?
collabetition ( I think a `@vengist | peacecamp` term) a thing?

What games have we seen where they present a positive sum payout scheme for community members, but there's a secret 3rd player set with different payouts?
How do we unearth and denounce these predatory games with secret rules and players? (Exploitation by Obfuscation)

the answer I think is on-chain history, we can see how you have voted in the past - therefore we can prevent your malicious intent going forward because we have the history to tell us.
on-chain history is only useful if people are looking and they know where to look.

Coopetition: gamer terminology?
    - Amplifying that individual agents in a state of competition might achieve a final result that feels collaborative, so long as they're not trying to annihilate each other?

