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Adam Brown, Robin Hanson, Chris Kemp, Gaia Dempsey, Christine Peterson | The Far Future & Space

The Foresight Institute Podcast

CHAPTER

The Glorious Side of Your Dichotomy

Robert Greene: There is a really important distinction between violent involuntary competition, destructive war, versus voluntary competition to cooperate. He says the dynamic that causes our diverse, uncontrolled civilization to grow into something that we're proud of is that growth happens much more directly and much better under systems of voluntary cooperation. The war-like things can have a winner, takes all dynamic, that causes things to simplify into a very bad state that we can't escape from.

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