Dr Joe McIntyre

I am suffering from seasonal AHHHHHHH disorder

I mean it's am potentially open to the suggestion, provided we start with all billionaires

I suppose the blood on the ice did add a certain festive cheer?

Thank you. Feeling silly, but otherwise ok

18 stitches, but very lucky. Will be fine

I have a particular knack for finding strange ways of injuring myself. I live in Australia. Its summer. So obviously today I stabbed the blade of an ice skate through my calf. 🤦‍♂️

Yep. Basic idea hasn't shifted for 700+ years

I went back to 1321 when I traced it. Its *always* been about allegiance, with the default that you became a subject at birth within territory

This whole affair inspired me to write a piece on "ivory washing", where academic-style pieces are used to provide political cover

Oooh thank you. I might just steal that for some submissions I am writing atm

I love this so much. Coolest Turkish auntie ever

Pleased to share that an article by @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social and I on ‘ivory washing’ and the responsibilities of legal academics in political discourse in Court of Conscience.
www.unswlawsoc.org/coc

I mean, if we want to make it fancy, I suppose we could go with "State Sanctioned Murder"

Obviously you can't leave it there. Details!

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My views is that providers like Lexis are engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct (potentially even outright fraud) as they are routinely advertising AI products as capable of providing legal research - which it is categorically incapable if doing.

There is going to be *so much* law stuff coming.

Actually think the first place we will start seeing rubber hitting the road is in legal profession disciplinary context. Strike offs acoming

Interested in some of the research behind this? Check out my preprint here

bsky.app/profile/drjo...

So this figure is actually strong evidence that most work of executives is just substance-less illusion building. Tricking people into think there is something there.

And *finally* we have a good use case for AI. Let's sack all executives!

Unfortunately this is *absolutely* the wrong lesson.

The real lesson is:

🔹️most work of exec class is substance-less illusions.

If AI is useful in a given use case its because you really only care about form, not substance [as an aside, this why such a great plagiarism machine].

So:

🔹️Execs ❤️ AI.

🔹️Workers (who care about getting it right) dont.

🔹️But because of confirmation bias, execs tend to take lesson that it's great for everyone.

🔹️So execs want everyone to use it, and are convinced it will increase efficiency

(2) AI is mostly useless for workers, because they have to produce things with substantive content. People care that they get it right - AI just can't do this consistently.

A useful rule of thumb: genAI gets it 80% right about 70% of the time. If you like those tolerances, it's fab - if not 😬

This has three implications.

(1) Most exec will grossly overestimate the broad utility and efficacy of AI because of confirmation bias.

Its good for them, so must be good for everyone. They will only listen to evidence that validates THEIR experiences

Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.

AI usage: 87% of executives use AI for work; 57% managers; 27% of employees.

This is both easy to believe and easy to misinterpret. AI is *genuinely* useful if what matters is FORM. Terrible at SUBSTANCE.

If useful for your job = your job just form.

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www.businessinsider.com/executives-a...

Ikr. One's a commission of learned scholars, and the other regulates the king of sports....

Sorry to hear. And everyone is just done - this time of year is bad enough but merger is chaos

Yep. I did 18mth on NT and the systemic racism up there is 🤮🤬

It there were rich indigenous societies that were smashed. Where these still exist- such as in Yolgnu communities- the lack of balanda social infrastructure less severe

Thank you. Was nervous writing as hard to get framing right

Yes. This is a problem. But that is not what is driving these figures. What is happening in Alice Springs is not about differential treatment, but a breakdown of social norms. It is structural