Hadfield-Menell: People redefining 'taste' as problem-solving intuition are just wrong
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-10-07
Berkeley professor David Hadfield-Menell doubles down: large portions of the AI community redefine 'research taste' as 'intuition for best approaching an already-specified problem,' and he flatly says those people are just wrong — a hill he's happy to die on, continuing his dispute over what taste benchmarks actually measure.
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