Academic renunciation of LLMs lost us better theory, ML/stats isn't the right lens
voooooogel · x · 2026-08-22
The author laments the academic renunciation of LLMs, particularly in linguistics, suggesting that better theoretical frameworks were never explored. They argue that ML and statistics are not the right lens or level of analysis for these phenomena, echoing Richard Ngo's critiques of myopic research.
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