Dean Ball: METR emerges from an intellectual monoculture; the ecosystem needs outsiders
deanwball · x · 2026-09-13
Dean Ball says he has immense respect for evals org METR, but argues it comes out of a relative intellectual monoculture and the ecosystem would benefit from outsiders. He's glad the industry is vigorously debating assessor credentials and what independence really means — a debate unthinkable a year ago.
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