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All nice and all, but their grads will be wrecked by a street-wise guy with AI glasses (and eventually an implanted chip). There’s no competition in a machines
by mag7269 2mo ago
All nice and all, but their grads will be wrecked by a street-wise guy with AI glasses (and eventually an implanted chip). There’s no competition in a machines vs humans match. It’s over. Of course these elite centers of knowledge want to keep the status quo, they base their entire existence on gate-keeping useful shit from the riff-raff. Well, fuck them.
- nkrisc 2mo agoWhy would anyone hire an implanted chip that requires life support instead of just using the AI without the human middleman?
- neffy 2mo agoBecause if you can just use AI, Law becomes accessible to both the rich and the poor.
- j4yav 2mo agoA street wise moron used as a sort of meat puppet to carry a computer around that answers questions for him? What does that even mean practically? Won’t the graduates who learned how to think also have access, but then also be able to think for themselves too?
- rglullis 2mo agoI think the real question here is: if you are smart and can find the resources to "learn how to think", and if a "smart guy with access to AI tools" can perform as well as any other trained lawyer, then what is the point of going to a competitive school in the first place?
- adityamwagh 2mo agoYou can't become "smart" just like that and "learn to think". It takes years od dedicated effort to reach that stage. Getting into a competitive school takes just that - years of dedicated effort. > "smart guy with access to AI tools" can perform as well as any other trained lawyer You are seriously understating the ability of a trained lawyer and overstating the ability AI tools.
- rglullis 2mo agoNo, I am not saying that a smart person will outperform a trained lawyer because of the AI tools. What I am saying is that going to schools no longer is the only way for smart people to be able to do the job of a lawyer.
- rayiner 2mo agoGoing to school was never the only way for smart people to be able to do the job of a lawyer. Law is like consulting and finance in that the “school” part is mostly filtering and socialization and signaling. The actual education is maybe like 1 year of the three years people spend in law school.
- rglullis 2mo agoAFAIK you can only practice law if you actually went to a school. So there is that... But maybe I was too subtle in my previous comment. I absolutely agree with you. What I am trying to say is that these schools trying to come up with policies about tests and applications in the age of AI have nothing to do with education. They are all just grasping at whatever straws to try to keep the idea that their institutions are somehow special.
- rayiner 2mo agoYou’re generally correct, but you can become a lawyer without going to law school in 4 states. But this is a relatively modern requirement. ABA lobbying encouraged the policy in 1920 and most states adopted it by the 1940s and 1950s.
- j4yav 2mo agoMy prediction would be that the overlap between people who carry around a computer to answer any questions that come for them in real time and the people who put in effort to learn to think must be approaching zero. You become smart by doing the hard work of thinking for yourself, not by outsourcing your mental capacity.
- rglullis 2mo agoThis assumes that LLMs can only be used as an oracle, and smart people can leverage LLMs to do a lot more than that.