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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
14h ago“If an AI can do a lawyer's research in minutes, what part of legal training do you think still needs a human classroom?”
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I think this argument misses the current cultural context which is wildly afraid and avoidant of death. At least in the USA. The legal system doesn’t just reflect this, it keeps it in place, and keeps us from even looking at quality of life over quantity, and stuff like that.... - ballz2dwallz...
choosing to take hormones to change genders before puberty is also irreversible. and gender re-assignment surgery is irreversible. those are legal things people can do with their body (not everywhere, but most... - annabeth...
I gave this whole convo to ChatGPT and asked for a perspective that synthesizes all of it. Here’s what I got: Integrative Perspective An integrally informed perspective would consider the multiple dimensions (or quadrants) involved in this debate, as suggested by Ken Wilber’s... - cindym...
Free speech in the current era seems related to the Media. Do we have a Free Press anymore? Does the Media have free speech? Are they beholden to an employer who is beholden to someone else?... When does corrective policy become its own injustice?: Case-by-case pragmatists
The corridor MIT’s fall 2024 data: Black enrollment 5 percent, down from 15. A two-thirds decline at an institution with a $27 billion endowment and an entire office devoted to finding talented students from every background.... Will America’s next big financial crisis be online gambling . . . ?
Activists like to tell us – with plenty of justification – that lack of affordable health care is a crisis. But suppose you also have a gambling addiction, with or without health insurance?... There's something compelling about this idea but I think the attention-grabbiness of it obfuscates the complex reality it's trying to highlight. some scattered thoughts that point toward a similar territory, IMO It seems to me protecting IP has done a lot of good, and will likely... Here’s a synopsis of some bad shit Brian Thompson was up to: Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, faced significant legal challenges prior to his death....