Without reproducible experiments on frontier-like LLMs, alignment science stalls
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-01
1a3orn argues that if you can't experiment on something kinda-like frontier LLMs, you can't learn much about LLMs — including alignment, a point Anthropic has explicitly made. And without reproducible experiments, it's hard to do actual science at all. The post frames open model access as a prerequisite for AI research, not just ideology.
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