I have indeed been publicly advocating against the inside game strategy at labs for many years (going all the way back to 2018), predicting it would fail due to incentive issues and have large negative externalities due to conflict of interest issues. I could dig up my comments, but I am confident almost anyone who I’ve interfaced with at the labs, or who I’ve talked to about any adjacent topic in leadership would be happy to confirm.
I have indeed been publicly advocating against the inside game strategy at labs for many years (going all the way back to 2018), predicting it would fail due to incentive issues and have large negative externalities due to conflict of interest issues. I could dig up my comments, but I am confident almost anyone who I’ve interfaced with at the labs, or who I’ve talked to about any adjacent topic in leadership would be happy to confirm.