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Robin Lakoff has died
- drankl 1y agohttps://archive.today/YjwUg https://archive.today/YjwUg
- js2 1y agoGift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/robin-lakoff-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e08.kcJP.aramdapzCbaW&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/robin-lakoff-dead.html...
- Husieandr 1y ago[flagged]
- throwawayzzzzzz 1y ago[flagged]
- Husieandr 1y ago[flagged]
- alex_young 1y agoIn case anyone else is wondering - Robin is the ex-wife of another prominent linguist, George Lakoff. Somehow GPT-5 got this badly wrong when I first asked: Yes — George Lakoff and Robin Lakoff are related. They are siblings. Er, no. They were married once and divorced 50 years ago according to their Wikipedia pages.
- coke12 1y agoWhat a fascinating semantic mistake. Is it possible being long-divorced is more similar to being siblings than we realize?
- bryan2 1y agoI would sincerely hope not.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoThis question may well be the rosetta stone for the cultural divide over AI.
- diggan 1y agoI don't think it means much except you need to enable "web" or searching at least for most models to deal well with facts, and that's probably for the better. Even a basic search tool + GPT-OSS-20b handles it correctly it seems to me (https://gist.github.com/victorb/de69a8c2169e6a7cc1989592419bb109 https://gist.github.com/victorb/de69a8c2169e6a7cc1989592419b...), if I guessed what prompt you used correctly, "Were George Lakoff and Robin Lakoff related?".
- antibull 1y ago[dead]
- toomuchtodo 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Lakoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Lakoff