We were all thinking it

Another successful week, by at least one measure.

Just walked through Penn Station and saw ads for five different legal AI companies. Most of them claim they’re gonna replace lawyers. lol

Airplane: you can't bring liquids larger than three ounces Amtrak: you can bring up to 4 liters of alcohol as long as you have paid for a sleeper cabin to drink it in

a desperate half-measure

THEY CAN DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE SITE. THERE'S A PLACE FOR THAT. THE LICENSE IS SUPER PERMISSIBLE. THESE CHUCKLEFUCKS ARE JUST TOO LAZY TO ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD THE XML AND PUT IT IN THEIR TRAINING PROCESS. THIS WAS SHIT I DID AS A FIRST YEAR GRAD STUDENT; IT'S NOT HARD.

That said, CD's thread really clarified something there -- I was looking to enhance expertise, but the LLM companies are looking to displace it. And that's one of the things that's been baseline pissing me off the last 5 years.

I still struggle to express exactly what I was going for there -- I feel like I've had moments where I was closer to it, but linguistics itself is still a relatively primitive science and so remains a relatively limited guide. A lot of work has been put into the field, but it's very easy to […]

That's not to say the choice toward statistical inference wasn't motivated. Our theories of the world gloss over a lot more than we consciously bring to light, and statistical methods patch over a lot of those gaps. But I always imagined, through understanding of language, you could better […]

Cory Doctorow's morning thread helped make something click I'd been wrestling with for a long time but struggled to express. When I got into linguistics and AI about 15 years ago, I was imagining devising systems that made it easier to express expertise. What I found was techniques that […]

I'm working on an explanation but it's gonna take a little work

(I am the void)

Just put my homemade cosmic microwave background rug over the baby’s crib

Bayesian Death Cult, the band