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kpreid comments on Moloch: optimisation, "and" vs "or", information, and sacrificial ems - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: kpreid 04 September 2014 03:26:38AM 4 points [-]

everyone makes a sacrifice to optimize for a zero-sum competition, ends up with the same relative status, but worse absolute status

Isn't a competition in which that outcome is possible not zero-sum, by definition?