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Legal humor. Seriously. by Kevin Underhill (Pictured: me discussing the Spanish woman who claimed she owned the Sun)

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loweringthebar, to random
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ATTN: If you happen to have an image of the attorney who wore a Grover head during opening argument in federal district court in Philadelphia yesterday, I would very much appreciate getting a copy.

https://www.law360.com/articles/1831588/atty-dons-muppet-head-to-open-sesame-place-race-bias-trial (sub. req’d)

grammargirl, to ai
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Washington state public schools just posted a thoughtful 19-page document with guidance for using AI in the classroom:

https://ospi.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/2024-01/human-centered-ai-guidance-k-12-public-schools.pdf

loweringthebar,
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@grammargirl This doesn’t seem to answer the question “why use AI in the first place.” Shouldn’t they be focusing on teaching kids how to write instead of suggesting they outsource it to some algorithm?

loweringthebar,
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@grammargirl I'm still at a loss as to what it's for. We don't use it at our law firm and I'd be very concerned about any associate who I found out was using it.

loweringthebar,
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@grammargirl I’m very skeptical of those kinds of promises about any tech. The underlying data often doesn’t support them. For example, the study he cites about law students actually says this: “We found that access to GPT-4 only slightly and inconsistently improved the quality of participants’ legal analysis but induced large and consistent increases in speed.” Well, of course it was faster. But a tool that helps you get wrong or questionable answers faster is not a useful tool.

loweringthebar,
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@grammargirl Assuming that would actually happen, which is one thing I’m skeptical about, I’d still say no. I doubt it helps them learn, and I think working from an existing text tends to inhibit creativity. Granted, working with a blank page is also hard. But at least then you don’t feel constrained by what the text already says. I see that in new associates working from prior drafts all the time.

loweringthebar,
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@ulidig @grammargirl They certainly have or will have some basic uses, Iike maybe outlining, brainstorming, or something like that. I’m just skeptical that what’s available now is useful for anything more complicated.

design_law, to random
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Okay, friends, it's the last weekend of the year.

What were the best things that you read, watched, or listened to for fun (or distraction) in 2023?

Define "best" however you want.

loweringthebar,
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@design_law RRR was ridiculous and terrific. It was ridiculously terrific.

Sheril, to history
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“Vote NO on Woman Suffrage” 🙄

Not ancient , but just a century ago.

Source: State Archives of North Carolina

loweringthebar,
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@Sheril Unsurprisingly all their arguments are terrible.

ct_bergstrom, to random
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A very well written story about the Calling Bullshit course I teach with @jevinwest.bsky.social at the UW.

https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2023-09/hows-your-bs-detector

loweringthebar,
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@ct_bergstrom this should be a required course

vagina_museum, to random
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Normally when we post patents, they're late 19th/early 20th century objects for interfacing with vaginas.

This is neither, but we're going to tell you about it anyway.

This is the Apparatus For Facilitating The Birth Of A Child By Centrifugal Force, patented in 1965.

loweringthebar,
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@vagina_museum This is my favorite patent ever.

andrew, to fediverse
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I've been kicking around pitching an idea for a course, tentatively titled “Introduction to Legal Writing for Public Consumption."

I'd like to marshal the fedihive mind and borrow the brains of folks much smarter and more experience than I -- does that sound like a law school course, or a journalism school course?

My experience of law school was that sort of writing wasn't even considered. Does that make this idea a feature or a bug?

@law

loweringthebar,
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@janetate @andrew @law I think it has. Lots of crap out there still, of course, but plain language is more common.

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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EDIT: This was a joke. The joke is that I don't look like that. Not remotely.

But I realize now that my avatar is a crow not my headshot so a lot of you don't know that and some day I'll be at a conference and someone will say wait WTF I thought you were a smoking hot young Brat Pitt lookalike and I'll be all uh what are you talking about and it'll be super awkward.

ORIGINAL POST: For the record, I was having a bad hair day.

https://twitter.com/telliowkuwp/status/1653365126408421379

loweringthebar,
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@ct_bergstrom This is exactly right. The risk is ever-escalating bullshit deployed by humans, not superintelligent AI. Artificial intelligence still isn't very intelligent.

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