The bit about cooperation and collaboration being more (resource) efficient
is key. To Bitcoin and etc, and is why I assume in the long term we will
win.

Noteworthy: It doesn't mean zero competition, but it does imply
approaching "perfect" competition.

On Thursday, September 18, 2014, Amir Taaki <genjix@???> wrote:

> Eric Schmidt: How do you know if you've won?
>
> Julian Assange: It's not possible to win this kind of thing. This is a
> continuous striving that people have been doing for a long time. Of
> course, there are many individual battles that we win, but it is the
> nature of human beings that they lie and cheat and deceive. Organised
> groups of people who do not lie and cheat and deceive find each other
> and get together. Because they have that temperament, they are more
> efficient, because they are not lying and cheating and deceiving each
> other. That is a very old struggle between opportunists and
> collaborators. I don't see that going away. I think we can make some
> significant advances and perhaps it is the making of these advances and
> being involved in that struggle that is good for people. The process is
> part of the end game. It's not just to get somewhere in the end; rather,
> this process of people feeling that it is worthwhile to be involved in
> that sort of struggle, is in fact worthwhile for people.
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