4.24.26 - Things AI Is Good For
This site betrays the luddite instincts of its author. I do have those, and I jokingly call myself a luddite. But that label is probably not accurate. My curiosity (and laziness) and high trait openness to experience generally outweigh my reactionary tendencies and deep skepticism of new things.
I’ve been using Claude quite a bit. Right now I’m using it to create an outline for a required class I simply do not care about and create an outline that will help me pass at minimum. I’m doing this because for my other classes, I do studying the long way, where I handwrite, type my own outlines, do practice exams, etc. But my ability to do that has been augmented by my ability to completely bullshit this class with synthetic thinking. I will likely never know the actual law for this subject. I’m spending money on extra compute for Claude for it to create the most functional attack sheet that I can just CMD + F on exam day and hope for a C or higher.
I’ve done the math and I can do extremely mediocre this semester and still be above median. Which at this point in my life I’m fine with. I used to care a lot of about excellence and deep understanding of the law. I really enjoy the law. But my the Third Year, I think even the most bright eyed students just want this to be over. At this point, its truly just extraction for a credential. There is very little marginal benefit to another year of schooling other than increasing debt burden and foregoing income and protecting other attorneys from competition. A lot of this industry is actually older attorneys locking up young talent in training or bullshit work to keep their own position secure. I’m sure of it. That’s actually this entire economy.
Anyways, that’s my thought for the day. AI can be good because bullshitting in one place saves you the time for sincere effort in another place.
Grazi,
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