In an infinite game with escalating stakes, there is no exit calculation. You either keep playing or you are eliminated. The absence of a finish line does not free you from the race. It removes the only thing that could have stopped it.
This is not a competition with a winner. It is a treadmill that accelerates until participants fall off.
https://discontinuitythesis.substack.com/p/the-ai-race-is-a-fractal-prisoners