Stanford Prof. @chrmanning argues METR’s financial independence doesn’t solve the deeper problem that it shares Anthropic’s worldview: "The one I want to emphasize most is intellectual rigor and creativity. University research is just the high point of where people are rigorous and careful, and test hypotheses to see if they're really true, and consider alternatives." "That's what's gonna be increasingly needed as these AI systems not only become very powerful, but also there's an enormous…