Yes, I was compressing a lot of ideas in a small space!
We have conceptual slippage here. By safety I'm referring to the safety of the developer (and maybe the world), not of a consumer who decides which product to buy. As you note, if safety is a critical component of winning a competition, then safety will be incentivized by the competition.
It is generally the case that it is hard to separate out (self) safety from competitive performance; we might best conceptualize "safety" as the residual of safety (the neglected part) after conditioning on performance... (read more)
Yes, I was compressing a lot of ideas in a small space!
We have conceptual slippage here. By safety I'm referring to the safety of the developer (and maybe the world), not of a consumer who decides which product to buy. As you note, if safety is a critical component of winning a competition, then safety will be incentivized by the competition.
It is generally the case that it is hard to separate out (self) safety from competitive performance; we might best conceptualize "safety" as the residual of safety (the neglected part) after conditioning on performance... (read more)