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nora-hakase (野良博士) @nora-hakase.bsky.social

I think the doubts expressed in that explanation are worth holding in mind. Things do not always make a clean, continuous progression of borrowings from medieval practice to modern practice.

dec 19, 2024, 6:31 pm • 0 0

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John Goldin @johngoldin.com

Oh boy, let’s let the AIs battle it out. He’s what chatGPT says. At least Claude acknowledges that it doesn’t really know.

ChatGPT etymology of contract
dec 19, 2024, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ish Dalal @ish.tax

ROFL at Black's Law Dictionary and the UCC both using "K" for shorthand.

dec 20, 2024, 6:44 am • 0 0 • view
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nora-hakase (野良博士) @nora-hakase.bsky.social

ChatGPT is the Confidently Mediocre text diarrhea spigot, yes

dec 19, 2024, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view