What Samuel Hammond thinks about LLMs
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Samuel Hammond has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe success of LLMs can thus be seen as vindicating semantic inferentialism against earlier, symbolic approaches to AI that tried and failed to explicate the rules of ordinary language using formal logic.
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Their wordsthe text embeddings across LLMs appear to largely converge on a "universal geometry" despite differing architectures, parameter counts, and training sets.