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I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted for this. I agree with you, fact recall is useful and necessary. If you have a larger and more tightly connected base of facts in your head, you can draw better connections.

And even though legal practice tends to be fairly slow and deliberative, there are settings (such as trial advocacy) where there is a real advantage to being able to cite a case or statute from memory.

All that said, I still maintain that it’s a poor way to compare humans with machines, for the same reason it would be poor to compare GPT-4 to a novelist on their tokens per second written.