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▲ drivebyhooting 7 hours ago

How much novelty can there be? If attorneys were as diligent and generous with “open sourcing” their data as SWEs had been, could LLMs benefit from all that training data?

▲keoneflick 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> How much novelty can there be?

As much novelty as there is in human interactions.

▲74948494i4 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> How much novelty can there be?

Infinite

▲Synthetic7346 7 hours ago | parent [-]

In the same sense there could be infinite CRUD apps?

▲oblio 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Law and code are only superficially similar as law always requires human interpretation plus law is an interface to reality. Code can stay contained in its nice, little, abstract box.

▲drivebyhooting 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So every lawsuit dispute, divorce, traffic injury, etc… is a completely novel case that requires depths of creativity far beyond simple CRUD apps or solving 377 open math problems.

Makes sense.

▲dfdydx 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn’t code an interface to reality as well?

▲oblio 7 hours ago | parent [-]

A lot of code is an interface to other code. Nginx is how many layers removed from actual physics?

▲benatkin 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In the same sense as infinite jest.