RESEARCH

RL against verifiable rewards in LLMs has clearly opened a very powerful regime. It works, and because it works, there is a strong tendency to view more and more problems through that lens. You optimize for tasks where the reward is clean, where success is easy to check, where the feedback loop closes quickly. This is productive and will keep paying off. But it also creates a bias: you start emphasizing what is legible to the training setup, not necessarily what is most valuable. Scientific reasoning is a good example. Not every step in science is something that can be cleanly graded at the moment it is produced. A hypothesis can later fail experimentally and still have been exactly the right kind of thinking at the time: creative, mechanistically grounded, and responsive to the available evidence. “Turns out to be wrong” does not imply “was low-quality thinking”. A big part of the next frontier will be AI systems that can operate well under this kind of uncertainty, just like a big part of the last one was RL against verifiable rewards.

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