Geoffrey Irving: labs aren't playing 4D chess — do simple, correct things so others update
geoffreyirving · x · 2026-10-23
DeepMind alignment researcher Geoffrey Irving quote-tweets Sigal Samuel's observation that the Overton window is shifting: more sources now say out loud that Anthropic/OpenAI could just unilaterally stop racing — "you're not playing 11-dimensional chess or a prisoner's dilemma, you're playing Russian Roulette." Irving responds with his FAR.AI Frontier Summit slide, "No really, we're not playing 4D chess": many interacting parties (other labs, USG, China, the public), simple actions set off waves of responses — so rather than modeling everyone, do simple + correct things so others update and act in simple + correct ways.
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