That's fine. It's my choice whether to upgrade my OS or not. If I do so, and my app no longer works on the new OS, then I can purchase a new version. Why should I pay a monthly fee just in case I might upgrade my OS and…
That isn't the same thing at all. If I buy version 2 then it's mine and I can continue to use it for as long as I want, if I'm happy with the feature set. I can ignore version 3 or choose to buy it. If I buy it then I…
There's some merit to your arguments, but not enough to justify a subscription: - Subscriptions are marketed as being a lot more than just bugfixes - new features being the big one. But there's usually no cheaper…
The thing you have to remember is that there are thousands of products out there all trying to charge a subscription, and most people aren't going to justify taking on more than a very small handful of them at any time.…
For the majority of software I use, I don't really care about continuous upgrades and new features, as long as it works with the feature set I signed up for. A great example for me is the Xodo app on Android. It's by…
> there is no way to sustainably develop a product without subscriptions This is clearly incorrect given that there are plenty of software developers who offer lifetime purchases. In fact there was a time that…
> an unusual ... definition I don't think it's that unusual. It seems to me just to be a narrower version of panpsychism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
The LLM can only generate text. The harness can do more than just generate text. By joining the two you're allowing the LLM (through text) to carry out whatever actions the harness can take. My brain can only generate…
To be fair, there's sufficient of it publicly available (e.g. on https://www.bailii.org/) that you can easily disprove the conspiracy theory that laws and interpretations are "blatently inconsistent". In fact most…
> would that then be a much better tool Better than before, yes. Good for general legal work that doesn't require robust legal research, yes. Sufficient for full legal research, no. The problem is that "a lot of case…
You can have as much RAG as you like, but if you're missing the data itself (the legal judgments), it's useless. The fundamental problem here isn't technical, it's that a very small number of corporations have complete…
Not if you set the VPN up on your router. You can also buy small portable routers designed specifically to sit between your machine and your wifi / ethernet.
Yes, it sounds crazy and against the principle of open justice, but unfortunately this is the reality. Certainly in the UK which is my jurisdiction - and I believe in the US too although I don't know for sure. In…
Agreed, but that's the fault of the lawyer, not the LLM.
Humans make mistakes too. In many cases, more often than LLMs. Humans are still useful for doing work. I use AI extensively in my legal work. But I check every citation myself, manually. That means that I read the…
Legal professional here. This is NOT a replacement for proper legal AI assistants (e.g. Westlaw, in my jurisdiction). As far as I can tell, this is just a wrapper around regular LLMs i.e. nothing that you couldn't…
VPN. Simple as that. Most companies aren't bothering to check anyway, most that do aren't detecting VPNs, and for the few that do that, there are ways to circumvent detection if you are really determined.
This is a common misconception. Namely, that increasing lifespan just means extending the part where your health degrades continuously. That's actually a very unrealistic outcome for life extension technology. In…
You seem to be implying that at after a certain number of years (e.g. 79) you wake up one day and say "I'm fulfilled and have nothing left I'd like to achieve". As someone who occasionally works with terminal patients,…
You want it, but then you closed by explaining exactly why you shouldn't want it. Plus, the new baseline isn't neutral (as in, everyone is the same again). If humans can now do 10x the work as before, the employer…
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. People shouldn't get punished for asking questions.
Wikipedia says 3 of them are still alive (Marky, Richie, C.J.).
Suggestion: drop the loading animation. I don't think many people are going to want to use something where they are forced to wait 10+ seconds before they can begin using it. If you absolutely must have it, have an…
Maybe, maybe not. At age 60 my kids will be grown up and living their own independent lives. They might even live a long distance from me. There are a lot of variables which might mean I don't see them very frequently…
I think many people who have children would gladly do 10 year in prison at age 60 if it meant they could leave $400m in their estate. If we pretend for the sake of the argument (unrealistically) that there's no major…
That's fine. It's my choice whether to upgrade my OS or not. If I do so, and my app no longer works on the new OS, then I can purchase a new version. Why should I pay a monthly fee just in case I might upgrade my OS and…
That isn't the same thing at all. If I buy version 2 then it's mine and I can continue to use it for as long as I want, if I'm happy with the feature set. I can ignore version 3 or choose to buy it. If I buy it then I…
There's some merit to your arguments, but not enough to justify a subscription: - Subscriptions are marketed as being a lot more than just bugfixes - new features being the big one. But there's usually no cheaper…
The thing you have to remember is that there are thousands of products out there all trying to charge a subscription, and most people aren't going to justify taking on more than a very small handful of them at any time.…
For the majority of software I use, I don't really care about continuous upgrades and new features, as long as it works with the feature set I signed up for. A great example for me is the Xodo app on Android. It's by…
> there is no way to sustainably develop a product without subscriptions This is clearly incorrect given that there are plenty of software developers who offer lifetime purchases. In fact there was a time that…
> an unusual ... definition I don't think it's that unusual. It seems to me just to be a narrower version of panpsychism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
The LLM can only generate text. The harness can do more than just generate text. By joining the two you're allowing the LLM (through text) to carry out whatever actions the harness can take. My brain can only generate…
To be fair, there's sufficient of it publicly available (e.g. on https://www.bailii.org/) that you can easily disprove the conspiracy theory that laws and interpretations are "blatently inconsistent". In fact most…
> would that then be a much better tool Better than before, yes. Good for general legal work that doesn't require robust legal research, yes. Sufficient for full legal research, no. The problem is that "a lot of case…
You can have as much RAG as you like, but if you're missing the data itself (the legal judgments), it's useless. The fundamental problem here isn't technical, it's that a very small number of corporations have complete…
Not if you set the VPN up on your router. You can also buy small portable routers designed specifically to sit between your machine and your wifi / ethernet.
Yes, it sounds crazy and against the principle of open justice, but unfortunately this is the reality. Certainly in the UK which is my jurisdiction - and I believe in the US too although I don't know for sure. In…
Agreed, but that's the fault of the lawyer, not the LLM.
Humans make mistakes too. In many cases, more often than LLMs. Humans are still useful for doing work. I use AI extensively in my legal work. But I check every citation myself, manually. That means that I read the…
Legal professional here. This is NOT a replacement for proper legal AI assistants (e.g. Westlaw, in my jurisdiction). As far as I can tell, this is just a wrapper around regular LLMs i.e. nothing that you couldn't…
VPN. Simple as that. Most companies aren't bothering to check anyway, most that do aren't detecting VPNs, and for the few that do that, there are ways to circumvent detection if you are really determined.
This is a common misconception. Namely, that increasing lifespan just means extending the part where your health degrades continuously. That's actually a very unrealistic outcome for life extension technology. In…
You seem to be implying that at after a certain number of years (e.g. 79) you wake up one day and say "I'm fulfilled and have nothing left I'd like to achieve". As someone who occasionally works with terminal patients,…
You want it, but then you closed by explaining exactly why you shouldn't want it. Plus, the new baseline isn't neutral (as in, everyone is the same again). If humans can now do 10x the work as before, the employer…
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. People shouldn't get punished for asking questions.
Wikipedia says 3 of them are still alive (Marky, Richie, C.J.).
Suggestion: drop the loading animation. I don't think many people are going to want to use something where they are forced to wait 10+ seconds before they can begin using it. If you absolutely must have it, have an…
Maybe, maybe not. At age 60 my kids will be grown up and living their own independent lives. They might even live a long distance from me. There are a lot of variables which might mean I don't see them very frequently…
I think many people who have children would gladly do 10 year in prison at age 60 if it meant they could leave $400m in their estate. If we pretend for the sake of the argument (unrealistically) that there's no major…