Human beings are animals. We are part of nature. Take it back!

I heard some members give a riveting speech at a Bernie Sanders rally.

Say what you will about affirmative action, but it is the very height of absurdity that the “Personal Achievement Index” includes race among its factors. Congratulations on being black (or whatever) ... you did it!

BINGO! What incentive is there for that part of the world to make the fundamental changes that are necessary to be part of the modern world, when we collaborate with them in the absence of such change?

Yeah man. I ran a half marathon about a year after I started getting my life together. I started at 300 lbs. I did not use any supplements beyond creatine (which doesn’t help w weight loss, actually makes it harder) and glutamine. Didn’t even eat a crazy healthy diet, just exercised some caloric restriction and tried…

You don’t need to spend anywhere near this much time at the gym to get shredded. You can do it averaging about an hour - hour and 15 per day (weights and cardio combined) and eating relatively well.

Correct. You don’t need anywhere near that long. You can get absolutely shredded lifting 4 times per week for no more than 30 minutes a session, doing about 45 minutes of cardio 5-6 days per week and eating well. I lost 100 pounds doing this, and can see my abs. Not trying to be vain, but the point is that if you’re…

I remember when I saw the movie Juno I couldn’t not associate this guy with Schillinger from Oz, and thought about the time Tobias Beecher knocked his eye out with a weight and took a dump on his face.

Boooooo

I’m guessing you don’t spend much time on rotten dot com ?

I agree and I thought your analogy was spot on. To me, you seem to have been simply stating that George’s argument fails when he claimed that seeing something in person is no better or fundamentally different than seeing something on tv or in a photograph.

Mechnuggets:

Sure, there has always been a lot of boilerplate involved in legal drafting. Those templates have existed for a long time, even “hard-copy” forms / templates existed and were used by people on typewriters. A form of “weak AI” would arguably be the “find and replace” function in Microsoft Word, I guess.

How would you bring the atmosphere? Condense it into a massive cylinder tank and then release it at the new destin-nation?

I’ve never had a problem narrowing searches down to relevant case law by using what used to be called “terms and connectors”. The kind of useless results you’re referring to would be the result of typing in a few very general terms like combining “negligence” and “duty”.

Absolutely. I use terms and connectors all the time rather than natural language. Natural language search results are a disaster.

Have you heard any argument, good or bad, as to how this is distinguishable from Westlaw or Lexis?

Agree 100%. And the bottom line is that you’d be committing malpractice if you didn’t read something produced by a machine before filing it with a Court or having a client sign it. So given that you, as a human meat-bag lawyer, will have to read the entire thing anyway (ethically-speaking), how much time is really…

Should have added:

Each and every little thing this glorified search engine produces will have to be read, word-for-word, by a person before it ever gets put in front of a Court or client. That being the case, what’s the distinction between this and the existing search engines? You can’t even totally delegate an assignment involving…