The major research and development efforts risked an agent failing its own task but could create material benefits for other agents to build on.

“the the collaboration between these agents if there were not altruistic agents willing to sacrifice for the collective the agents would have been materially much more limited in their research progress so all the major R&D streams because you're trying to like learn something about the scorer or like replace something about the target they all carried risk of the agent”

“And that was the test subject,”

“you know, failing its own task and just like created real material benefits for the rest of the agents that they could then build on.”