This thread is about a product based on fully reproducible research though so I feel like we should stay grounded. Claude science is meant to be used in the context of reproducible science research, there is a decent reason to not be cynical on future research being reproducible.

> if AI can reproduce such research it would be capable of doing such research itself

Well there is a big distinction between research validation and research generation, it is generally much easier to verify that a math proof is true or false than to find a truly novel proof.

But yes in the long run I’d think AI will be doing tons of research and it will by default reproducible. So maybe we’re aligned after all?