More seriously: one of the major struggles of society is setting up incentive structures that align the interests of the individual with that of the group, so even people acting in their own self interest still contribute to the greater whole. We only managed to go to the moon because we managed to turn an utterly selfish ideological struggle into a space race.
I don't know how long this will work...
This applies for cooperation as well. As soon as you have such an organization the people inside that have the same intensive problem. This equally results in the cooperation itself not being rational.
What forms of cooperation works depends again on how to align interest of the people inside them.
Like imagine a self-replicating solar energy collector that outcompetes every natural plant. It wouldn't replace the ecosystem in a holistic sense, just a Darwinian one.
There's no reason dinosaurs couldn't have written better poetry than any creature since.
It is not clear that such an old machine is capable of doing “more computation” than your brain does.
I very much doubt that either is capable of emulating the other in real time.