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samtp··on Astra for Law
You must have a greater critical thinking ability than what you are showing now.
samtp··on Astra for Law
Sure as long as they stop making things up.
samtp··on Astra for Law
Your comment is a great example of the phenomenon where people think AI is an expert in areas that are not because they have no way to determine if the seemingly good looking result is genius, gibberish, or somewhere in between.
samtp··on Astra for Law
hallucinations are a subset of slop
samtp··on Astra for Law
> Instead, the job might be done by less expensive folks like paralegals.

So who is going to define your strategy, represent you in court, adapt the strategy to changing circumstances, negotiate with counter-parties on a mutually accepted settlement? A paralegal? An AI model? Please

samtp··on Astra for Law
The internet came well before both of those. And none of the example I gave have lead to lawyers regularly being fined in court because of "hallucinations"
samtp··on Astra for Law
You know exactly what they mean. But if somehow you miraculously don't there are hundreds of stories like this:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/lawyer-state-farm-f...

samtp··on Astra for Law
Sure but just like generating 100x more code, someone has to review it. So you are wasting everyone in court's time (defendants, prosecutors, judges, staff) by making them parse through what is quite often a bunch of hallucinated slop. Time that could be much better spent on parties who prepared and reviews their own arguments.
samtp··on Astra for Law
The law is much more interpretation and argument based than logic routing based than you seem to believe.
samtp··on Astra for Law
If you think paralegals + AI can do the job of good lawyers you don't understand the profession at all.
samtp··on Astra for Law
> LLMs are the first genuinely useful legal tech since the Internet

That is an incredible statement that could not be further from the truth. Large scale adoption of email, searchable document databases like Westlaw, LexisNexis, PACER, etc.. , OCR Software, electronic signatures, and tons more have had a much more defineably positive impact on the legal profession since the internet came about.

samtp··on The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified
Its not that they can't find them. It's that if they can't exert the same control that they have over H1B visa holders, they would rather pay a lower salary (overseas).

The US government could disincentivize companies from moving jobs over seas instead of hiring local, but the current administration seems more concerned with corporate profit and stock prices than anything else.

samtp··on The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified
More people frequenting local business and spending the income in the local economy is generally viewed as a good thing.
samtp··on The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified
They can't vote.
samtp··on The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified
Seems more likely to just lead to larger offices in India, reducing high earners here in America (even if only temporary) and reducing the amount of money that is recycled through American cities.
samtp··on Grok Bot
"largely solved" as in they the models they trained don't fall for prompt injections as often but not "largely solved" as in the underlying issue is solved at all.
samtp··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
more likely that hosting and delivering the models will be commoditized, much like how DO, Linode, Hertzer etc all commoditized VPSs and server hosting. And you'll end up paying for virtual hardware size (or compute resources) rather than tokens
samtp··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
there is also https://cline.bot/cline-pass
samtp··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
This is a really ironic comment given how the US gov is getting politically involved in pretty much all science research funding and speech at the moment.
samtp··on Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027
Agree with all of that but want to point out one thing that is almost always true re: businesses citing loss of parking to oppose bike lanes:

99% of the time the business owners are really just mad that they personally cannot park directly outside their business anymore. They may cite nonsensical things like 2 less parking spaces outside their business will lead to less customers, but what they are really mad about is their own personal parking space going away. Very dumb and selfish

samtp··on Jolla Phone (October 2026)
Their branding & website looks like a generic fake shop that was created in 30 mins for testing or scamming
samtp··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
thats more of a legal requirement rather than an active advertisement to consumers
samtp··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
I've used Cline for a year now and very happy with it. Fits my workflow really well
samtp··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
I've been really liking the Cline extension in VS Code
samtp··on Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
You don't think one company being worth half a year of the biggest country in the world's budget is all that much?

Hard to know how to where to go from there because I find that quite insane.

samtp··on Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
> Setting up data centers in orbit

Still have yet to hear how data centers in space are actually supposed to be a good thing when cooling them is much harder than on earth because they are in a near vacuum with much less heat dissipation.

> Setting up facilities to beam down energy to earths surface could also be an opportunity

Also interested to learn how this is done without creating a death ray with potentially catastrophic consequences

So if all the current telcos in the US lose all of their customers and SpaceX captures 100% of them without degrading the current margin/pricing at all, they are 5% of their way to the $4.3t goal. And the only way I can see that happening is from government mandate - which if things don't change I guess never say never. But still a very very very long way off

samtp··on We let AIs run radio stations
Go for a walk and take a few deep breaths
samtp··on We let AIs run radio stations
Sorry what FM or AM channel was this AI experiment on?
samtp··on We let AIs run radio stations
Do you live near a city? Because pretty much every major city has a few. KEXP, WPFW, WUSC, KNHC are all local stations playing interesting non top 40 music that have been operating for decades in places that I have lived. Dublab & The Lot radio are also really good over the internet.

If there are non around you just pick a random place in the world here and listen: https://radio.garden

It's certainly 100x better than corporate and/or AI slop streams

samtp··on We let AIs run radio stations
Yeah and my entire point is that the quality standard that artificial intelligence developers should be aiming for is not soulless corporate mass market media. Because our world world is already swimming that nonsense. So there's absolutely nothing novel in finding a new way to create beige bs.

Once again, I have no idea what you're talking about when talking about fines or manipulation, I'm talking about quality. But it seems pretty damn clear at this point that you have never listened to any local independent radio station.

You should really try it out sometime. It's a lot better. And it'll save you from calling people snowflakes because you feel insecure about what type of radio stations they like.

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