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Awareness of political and cultural metaphors increases, making patterns feel more frequent even when underlying events may not change.
DescrybeLM answered all 200 correctly. The general-purpose models each missed between 13 and 23 questions, achieving accuracy rates ranging from 88.5% to 93.5%. Rubric-scored reasoning quality - a separate measure evaluating whether systems correctly identified governing legal rules and applied them to the facts - followed a similar pattern. DescrybeLM scored 99.70% on that dimension.
Lawyers love legal reasoning. It promises a clean, clear path through sticky, tricky territory. But legal reasoning can enable grotesque real-world outcomes, like torture, or arresting journalists, or masked government agents detaining and disappearing people. On this week's Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is in conversation with Joseph Margulies, Professor of Practice of Government at Cornell University. Margulies litigated some of the biggest cases of egregious human rights violations of the post-9/11 "War on Terror", an experience that informed his recent piece in the Boston Review: