A post argues labs should stop RL-maxxing and scale pretraining instead
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-07-23
The post argues that labs should stop “RL-maxxing,” claiming that pushing reinforcement learning too far always leads to misalignment and that no objective is safe under infinite RL. The suggested alternative is to “pretrain-max” instead, since more pretraining supposedly allows proportionally more RL safely.
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