Comment by antonvs

If a short sentence like that could accurately summarize Robert Brandom’s deontic scorekeeping, he would have wasted a good chunk of his career.

I mean this with zero snark: if you’re interested, you’d be best off asking an LLM or doing a search. But the overall idea is that Brandom described how concepts and meaning are created socially by a kind of game in which people keep track of the claims that other people commit to.

If you accept Brandom’s framework, then it can be argued that LLMs can’t meaningfully participate in this process. This could be considered an explanation of why people have a negative reaction to LLM involvement in activities that are meaningful to humans - even though most people won’t be familiar with the theory, they would instinctively recognize that something important is lacking, such as commitment over time.