> at least in the long term, due to competition. Assuming there's always some proportion of people who choose to do otherwise. Humans are powerful enough now

> at least in the long term, due to competition. Assuming there's always some proportion of people who choose to do otherwise. Humans are powerful enough now that, if we wanted to, we could stop this. It'd require collaboratively punishing defectors, of course – because some humans are greedy – but until (and if) we meet aliens, we don't need to live like this, provided we can learn to work together. It's fortunate, then, that motivated collaboration can produce better results than competition. The collaborators might be able to win the Last Competition.