Joel Stevick

Chapter 3 · section 6 of 6

Where this leaves you

You have a function that decides what is shown, and it does not consult the model. An answer that cites a law it was not given is refused. An answer with a figure no cited law states is refused. An answer that passes is shown under the laws it cited, and the learner reads the source, not the model’s account of it.

The check is strict, and strictness has a cost you will meet immediately: when the model is given the wrong laws, it cannot write a right answer, and the check refuses an honest attempt. Chapter 2 gave the model all twenty-seven laws, and the deployed corpus for Maryland alone has thousands. Finding the right eight is the next five chapters.