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by dmvdoug 2y ago
The whole article was ridiculous puffery for the application of AI in the legal field, written by… people who would benefit from investment in application of AI in the legal field. The beginning of the article is supposed to hook you in and
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Founders of “legal AI” startup say legal AI will change everything (get in while you can!). Each 100 shares purchased comes with your very own carbolic smoke ball. Don’t delay!
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I regularly have to declare tab bankruptcy. By which I mean I bookmark the several hundred still-open tabs in a folder named after the date of said declaration. …you know, in case I, uh, want to continue to work through them some other day.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Now you’re being remarkably reductive—-about the human language facility. We don’t ”go one word at a time.” (Simple example: “hey, look at that tig boad! Uh… ha! Tig boad, I meant big toad.” Stupid example but the point is that the cognitiv
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
They don’t make labor law like they used to, unfortunately. The Supreme Court has steadily been gutting it for 40+ years now, and unionism has unfortunately been subsumed into culture war politics so that even a bare acknowledgement of the
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Whereas I view them as risk distribution vehicles, which society has agreed to treat specially because society has also agreed that they are capable of producing sufficient good for society as a whole (in a variety of forms) that they may b
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
And corporations only exist for the purpose of making profits for shareholders, you’ll tell me next.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Until they get Buridan’s-assed.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Well, there’s also specifically the element of exceeding authorization that doesn’t even seem plausible on its face. The real meat of the federal complaint is the request for a declaratory judgment.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Closer to what they’re getting at, sure, although I get it: every field is entitled to its own quirky use of vocabulary.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
“How ‘knowledge graphs’ became a thing in CS,” more like. Needless to say, perhaps, but that usage of ‘knowledge’ is domain-specific, not something a non-CS person would recognize as or admit to be ‘knowledge.’
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Paging mjg59, Matthew Garrett, Matthew Garrett to the white courtesy phone.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, won’t someone think of the poor founders and their desire to exit?
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
That is a great tip, I had no idea. Thanks!
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They’ll usually tell you what critical edition the translation is based on. Translators almost always work off of critical editions rather than manuscript themselves, at least where we’re talking about popular stuff like Homer or whatnot.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Just Mossad Mossadin’.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, tools are not made for users but for the tool-builders. Everyone else must adapt!
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Thank you for that. The background music was irritating, but it’s a really fantastic video!
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Welcome to HN!
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
The interesting part to me is that you did not list consumers/individuals among your list of “all the major players” involved.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
This was absolutely lovely. When you take a “methods” class in graduate school for history, you learn about the different theoretical frameworks historians use. You never really spend any time talking about actual methods of going about and
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I have nothing to say about the technical stuff, just that I’m sorry for your loss, and that from perspective you were a true friend by taking that task on after they were gone.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
My favorite thing a history professor ever said to me about Foucault was “well we don’t really read him for figuring out the truth. We just read him for provocative ideas.”
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I… don’t know what point you’re trying to make, but I’m pretty sure it’s not relevant to anything I said above.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Information I see: I think all understanding and therefore all learning is hermeneutic. I was persuaded by Hans-Georg Gadamer’s magnum opus, Truth and Method. I think his theory, which he called “philosophical hermeneutics,” is a skeleton
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle As for the rest, you really do have to read the book. (There’s no Cliffs Notes version.)
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Read Gadamer’s Warheit und Methode (unless you have a pathological aversion to continental philosophy in any form). All understanding is hermeneutic and thus infinitely wheeling us around the hermeneutic circle. It’s the entry-point (with
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
> Just kidding. We've never read "War and Peace" in any form. That’s a pity. War and Peace is a fantastically good novel, genuinely a page-turner in places.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Hope you name it not “SCC” but “SmaCC”.
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Wh

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