Freddie comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong
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Nature excels at building large-scale cooperative structures. Multicellular organisms are one good example, and the social insects are another.
If the evidence for the superiority of competition over cooperation consists of "well, nobody's managed to get cooperation in the dominant species working so far", then it seems to me, that's a pretty feeble kind of evidence - offering only extremely tenuous support to the idea that nobody will ever get it to work.
The situation is that we have many promising examples from nature, many more promising examples from history, a large trend towards globalisation - and a theory about why cooperation is naturally favoured.