In competitive game theory, there is an 'eye of the needle' problem: when three ruthless but friendly competitors are close to achieving something valuable, the traditional norm in the community is to test before release; but if the potential gain is very large, one player may decide to cut corners and skip testing, which is inherently destabilizing because it incentivizes others to abandon norms as well; this dynamic applies to AI development across nations.
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“there's actually a a framing in our industry now which is called the eye of the needle problem and it goes roughly like this assume the three of us are friendly competitors but we're pretty ruthless um and we're very close to getting something done but the tradition in our group is that we test it before we release it but let's say the gain is really big and I being Mr evil and you guys being much less evil than me decide to cut corners and not do the testing that is inherently destabilizing in a game Theory way”
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