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Lawyer finds ChatGPT waffles and is easy to persuade because it holds no strict views on anything, thinks this is a confirmation that (his) persuasion skills ar
by ukuina 3y ago
Lawyer finds ChatGPT waffles and is easy to persuade because it holds no strict views on anything, thinks this is a confirmation that (his) persuasion skills are magical.
- zem 3y agoyeah, if he had found a different set of arguments from the other side, chatgpt would have agreed just as readily. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7RmcdHrYuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7RmcdHrYuk
- sigilis 3y agoI think he understands that, he just is refreshed by being able to interact with an apparently reasonable intelligent agent rather than a lawyer.
- cjbprime 3y agoThere's no skepticism in the post, for example making the opposite argument in his "But <my opinion, X> is true, right?" conversational style, and seeing whether ChatGPT tells him just as readily that he "is correct" and it "appreciates the clarification" and he is "raising an astute point". Lessig is famous, but lawyers -- especially famous ones -- are not known for their resistance to intellectual flattery. I think it is fair to describe this lack of skepticism as a fatal flaw in the blog post (and a potentially significant flaw in its author). The blog post was supposed to be about how AIs can be convinced by reason, but the author did not actually assess, or show curiosity about, whether reason is a requirement for convincing them in any way. That's not a small blind spot; the mention in the final paragraph of "But I'll confess that this persuadable intelligence has seduced me." seems to be confessing more than it intended to.
- tmaly 3y agoI would love to see him react to it handling the trolley problem.
- williamcotton 3y agoI mean, he’s not your average lawyer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig