> Law and medicine are fundamentally harder fields to obtain decent training data for

I think this bubble has given a lot of people software brain and are trying to apply it to fields it is wholly inappropriate for, though. Law is about argumentation and rhetoric. It is about providing a persuasive argument. This is how it is taught. The actual legal code is a way to formalize parts of it, but increasingly I see people angrily insisting that the only thing that matters is the text.

As you might imagine, I find textualism a load of applesauce, but I don’t think the vast majority of people making this argument even understand textualism as jurisprudence. It seems to stem from Crypto bros and the whole “code is law” argument which is just codswallop.