Researcher pushes back: entailment is core to language, so the anti-LLM-reasoning argument fails

AndrewLampinen · x · 2026-09-28

Researcher Andrew Lampinen argues in a thread with @sebschu, @tallinzen and @yoavgo that since entailment and explanation are already core parts of natural language distributions (hence NLI), a paper's argument against LLM reasoning "doesn't actually prove anything."

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