Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less
via sethackerman.substack.com
This reflects a lot of what I have been struggling with around learning the legal system. They use the law as a tool to try to be sure they are good to each other, not just to protect themselves from bad people.
If you survive the encounter you will be dominated and less mentally stable at best, but it will all seem fine until you forget your payment or enter their world.
Most technological changes are things our culture is unprepared for and doesn't have lore to depend on, but I promise you tales of the fey were preparing you to think about LLMs.
Working while you sleep, deeply dishonest because truth is not understood, your success depends on how carefully you ask
Look as long as you are a customer you are safe from them hearing any of your ideas, so best to play ritually once a year to keep the shield of customer service upon you.
(I think social media would be a LOT healthier if more of the people making the rules for it grew up in and understood small town manners around knowing your neighbors business)
I mean it would have to be a game with open information. You know all the secrets in a town like that.
Ok so I think the longleaf pine ecosystem is romantic and inspiring but when I talk about it people mostly seem to feel horror?
And to be fair one of the places is called Tate's Hell and the plants there smell like rotting meat but I promise, it is in a romantic way!
The problem for legal tech is that relationships don't scale, but as much as lawyers want to think our value is in what we know, much of our value is in other people trusting us to tell them the things we know.
They sound like the same thing but really, really are not the same thing.
It can't tell you when you are researching the wrong thing.
I am glad you still want someone who understands what you want not just the legal research question.
Much of the value in a transactional lawyer is knowing when to tell you that you are wrong or you have to do it a different way.
It takes expertise, but also the ability to build a trusting relationship.
Even if they were capable of doing perfect research an AI lawyer would still be flawed.
White fluffy puppy with black head and lighter muzzle stares at camera, tongue slightly out
So much hard stuff is going on, please have a little joy too.
Important update.
That is literally their job
And make the argument that once they are invalidated they are administratively surrendered because they are no longer a driver's license.
I didn't expect a story about jury selection in Texas to leave me weirdly hopeful but it did.
This is great reporting about the lawyer t-shirt in the "antifa" trial in Texas
www.thisamericanlife.org/i-want-what-...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I think the name being attracted to the thing in the news might be the uncommon thing
Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.
I really wish I was immune to culture but I understand I am not even if I don't always feel or notice the effects.
I think that is what people underestimate about the risks. They think their media consumption choices do not change their thinking so the only consideration is their audience.
And if a system only has one outcome is it even useful or is it best understood as a kind of lobbying instead of analysis.
There are lots of systems that seem to be set up to advocate for more hiring but have they ever done anything other than that?
If we needed fewer police how would we know?
I think about that sometimes because there doesn't seem to be any mechanism in the system that might allow for that to be possible, at least internally.
I don't think that is appropriate for high school kiddos but if your kiddo is upset but the recruiting it might be interesting to her
In law school those of us who were ineligible made sure to sign up for the JAG interview slots and do the best job we could.
A kind of receptor blocking strategy but also is is demoralizing to interview very smart people you can't take over and over again.
I was in law school during DADT
But seriously the enzymes are so interesting now and surfactants have come a long way!
I have fallen down a laundry optimization rabbit hole lately and it is such an embarrassing enthusiasm.
I still miss my all in one GE.
I mean if I showed you the skaters and told you nothing but one was from San Francisco almost anyone from the US would still know which photo was the one to use!
His problem is speeches are not long enough?
I mean it is at least a take I genuinely have not heard before.
But I have never noticed a correlation between time speaking and time spent thinking deeply, except of course to the extent they are inherently incompatible in the same timeframe.
