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    I just want to address this comment: > What initially presents itself as impressive intelligence can, upon closer inspection by…

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    Hi Dan, Actually, no, that the engine is next-token prediction does not entail that “there is only so much recycling,…

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    I’m a mathematician who works on AI research, though not specifically on training LLMs. Basically, we really don’t know what’s…

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    My experience with LLMs as a layperson/non-philosopher is that the aforesaid are excellent as spell checkers and translators (and, at…

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    I think we need to separate several different issues here: the future of the university, the future of education, the…

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    Unless we accept dualism, ultimately any creative process comes down to high-level emergent consequences of a very complex system whose…

They weren’t good enough for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The AAAS has now put on-line a list of all its members since its founding, searchable by subject.  The omissions in the "Law" category are just breathtaking–they include such giants of law and legal scholarship in the 20th-century as Karl Llewellyn, Leon Green, Jerome Frank, Milton Handler, William O. Douglas, W. Page Keeton, John Henry Wigmore, and William Prosser.  (Antipathy towards legal realists seems to be playing a role here, though doesn't explain all the omissions.)  This is probably a worse track record of misses than even the Nobel Prize in Literature's!

ADDENDUM:  Larry Garvin (Ohio State) identifies some other surprising omissions:  Robert Jackson, Louis Brandeis, Arthur Corbin, Allan Farnsworth, Thurman Arnold, Max Radin, Charles Warren.

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