I really enjoyed reading 75% of this letter and deeply agree with it - i have some doubts on the remaining 25%.

Third-party evaluators, if done right, are a great idea and an amazing way to establish more transparency. Maybe even rebuild some of the lost trust between labs, and between them and society! Excited about this

The part I’m less convinced by is whether you can build great global cooperation on this topic by explicitly stating you want to design it to keep widening your own lead. That seems like a pretty counterproductive way to start the conversation to me.