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It'd be interesting to hear what happens when these "no attention span" kids enter professions where at-length focused reading is mandatory. Say, some parts of
by bell-cot 2y ago
It'd be interesting to hear what happens when these "no attention span" kids enter professions where at-length focused reading is mandatory. Say, some parts of law, where the documentation for a case is often >1k pages, and the deadlines are real.
- morkalork 2y agoThey'll have been broken in by university, studying for the LSAT, and doing mountains of research as an intern by then. The gulf between highschool and university is growing ever wider though, that's for sure.
- bell-cot 2y agoTo judge by the article (and a number of similar ones I've seen) even the elite universities have already given up on breaking them in. Have LSAT Prep Courses really taken up the burden?
- morelandjs 2y agoNext gen will probably leverage AI summarization extensively and effectively. They’ll have better tools to efficiently consume information than lawyers in the past.
- bell-cot 2y agoPerhaps. But what's it like now, when AI's are notorious for hallucination on legal subjects? (And obviously - if the AI's are really competent on the hard parts of legal stuff, wouldn't firing 99% of the lawyers be the reasonable strategy?)