Joke Paper Title 'Can a Computer Scientist Align an LLM?' Riffs on Classic Essay
MichaelRetchin · x · 2026-09-26
A viral quip pitches "Can a Computer Scientist Align an LLM?" as the long-awaited sequel to the famous 2002 satirical essay "Can a Biologist Fix a Radio?" — a wink at the idea that alignment research may be stuck in the wrong methodological frame, just as reductionist biology was when dissecting a radio.
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