joshuasmithatl.bsky.social
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Well, that’s the problem. The ad suggests it can or will be able to do almost anything! And the user will need minimal—if any—background knowledge. That’s preposterous, IMHO.
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That depends on the use case. Using it to learn or research hard facts is almost useless, so I would agree with that.
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And even then you have to take what it generates and make it your own. Otherwise, your finished product is meh.
Of course, some people will lazily use it to make slop with minimal human input. I’m optimistic those folks will be exposed as frauds in the long term.
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Yes, knowing the right questions to ask is critical for using AI to improve productivity. But one CANNOT KNOW the questions to ask if he or she doesn’t have the basic knowledge of the subject first!
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As a lawyer, it reminds me of my first legal research task as a 1L about 10 years ago. Did they let us to go crazy on West and Lexis? No! We went to the library and learned how to use case books, KeyCites, etc. The digital product makes so much more sense if you know how the knowledge is organized.
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As someone who enjoys using generative AI for productivity purposes, this is just wrong. You can’t get the benefits of it without foundational knowledge. It doesn’t replace research, it is a tool for it. It doesn’t replace writing, it’s a tool for it.
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For those reading this who don’t understand, this is not a flex about myself, but rather the pedestrian accomplishments required to be placed in high power in MAGA legal world.
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Precisely. I graduated from a respectable (not T14) law school and had my pick of Big Law jobs in the mid-2010s because I did okay for myself. I would be in line for plumb positions in the administration or judiciary right now if I had gone down that road.
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I’ve told many, many people I could be an Article III judge (or close to it) by now if I had just sold out and joined the right wing legal movement in law school or soon after. A tad exaggerated, but I don’t think people appreciate how small the gap is between my joke and reality.
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I am 1000% in the target demographic of people who would be told that “master bedroom” is not okay anymore. I first heard the argument within the last six months.
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I’ll quibble with one of these: obviously anecdata, but folks like me and others who have PoliSci backgrounds are often the first to leverage their comparative politics knowledge and say 1. states that go down this road end up in bad places and 2. the US isn’t a special snowflake.
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As terrible as that is—and it is terrible—the most amazing thing here is that the detainees aren’t even challenging their confinement! They’re challenging the government’s ability to designate them as an enemy combatant and whisk them off to El Salvador! Habeas shouldn’t even apply!
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The question, then, is this: what are you going to do about it? I don’t have my answer yet. But it’s almost all I think about when I’m not living my day-to-day.
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It’s almost like we’re operating with an 18th century model no longer fit for purpose.
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I echo all those that say go in person. As great as it is on TV, it doesn’t do the game justice for just how fast the game is. Biggest difference between in-person and screen experience of any team sport I think.
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This is the part that got me. TL;DR: Headline economic numbers don’t tell the whole story, so voters were correct to blame Biden for not fixing 20 years of economic stagnation in one term.
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Looks like a cable access broadcast 🤣
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Or pay attention for one second on progressive Christian churches. There are millions of mainline Protestants and even some progressive evangelicals!
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This is part of a larger dynamic of generally not covering progressive Christian groups and leaders in the “mainstream” media (i.e., not RNS).
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(Also #LGLG)
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Both unopposed and long-serving, but I voted for fellow parishioners to be both my state House AND state Senate members.
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One of the most undiscussed things about Trump is that—setting aside all political ideology or lack thereof—Donald Trump is an objectively weird dude.
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And correct me if I’m wrong, I believe we already know ABOUT those texts. We just hadn’t seen the literal texts.
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Georgia doesn’t have party registration. A voter’s can only be inferred from his or her past selections of primary ballots.
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(Probably doesn’t need to be said, but Fed Soc was way more prescriptive on who could come speak and which topics they are allowed to speak about. And by way I mean absolutely.)
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Also, as someone who was a leader in his law school ACS chapter and had an amicable relationship with the Fed Soc leadership such that we put on joint events, the philosophical priors of both organizations are on full display when it comes to which topics/speakers the national org will pay for…
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This is absurdly reductive. Do I know people from law school who were active in both Fed Soc and ACS because they had genuine interest in constitutional law? Yes! Is that reflective of the leadership and membership of Fed Soc writ large? Absolutely not!
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It’s early, but so far, the Georgia judiciary is holding. 🤞🏻
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But also worth nothing that Judge McAfee, who has the pending Fulton County criminal case related to the 2020 election, is a former Federalist Society member. And his decisions have been very fair to all parties thus far. Nothing like what you see with Judge Cannon in SDFL.
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For context from a Georgia lawyer (and former Prof. Noll research assistant!), McBurney is the same judge who has twice chucked Georgia’s six-week abortion limit law (for different and persuasive reasons). Easy to say he’s just a crazy liberal judge (despite appointment from a GOP governor).
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But these guys (misguidedly) wanted to go around the world, throw out authoritarian regimes hostile to the US, and set up democratic governments. So when you think about it, actually not that surprising they would find Trump objectionable
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This is correct. I never worried that neocons were hostile to democratic governance. They have a very muscular view of the president’s war powers, which I and many, many others believe are dangerous to civil liberties.