Graceful degradation was something that I had originally heard of in a computing context, but that I find has real application in the legal field (which is my field of work). When giving legal advice, whenever possible, you want to give guidance that will work even if only part of it is followed. (Because even as an in-house lawyer, I can pretty much count on my clients ignoring or reinterpreting my advice pretty regularly.)
This is especially important when some action or behavior becomes critical, but only in certain circumstances. &nbs...
It's not exactly the same thing, but I've been known to try to explain my lack of outrage/engagement/joiner-ism when it comes to things like this, by saying: "I get why you disagree/why that's awful/whatever, but really, I just can't get that worked up just because somebody's wrong on the internet."
It's a little disingenuous, because the issue isn't really "someone being wrong on the internet", but rather that folks feel that there's something wrong in the world, as reflected by a third-party's opinion. But since we all get our news and opinion...
Regarding category 2, and the specific example of "lawyer", I personally think that most of this category will go away fairly quickly. Full disclosure, I'm a lawyer (mostly intellectual property related work), currently working for a big corporation. So my impression is anecdotal, but not uninformed.
TL; DR - I think most lawyer-work is going away with AI's, pretty quickly. Only creating policy and judging seem to be the kinds of things that people would pay for other humans to do. (For a while, anyway.)
I'd characterize legal w...
As a former smart person who decided that actual productive work was undervalued, so therefore I might as well become a lawyer, this line made me chuckle:
"Normally I would be against dumbing down our testing, but keeping smart people from becoming lawyers is not the worst idea."
Unfortunately, given what's on the LSAT, even removing the logic puzzle part of it probably doesn't help that much in dumbing it down. I think it only ends up mattering in the broadest categories. (That is, while folks' percentiles might change without the Logic Fun sect...
The "sin, confession, priest" metaphor is a great anchor - that's very similar to the feeling we try to project when we have these discussions with clients. And, related to Raemon's question, that's part of how I try to address the issue.
Specifically, we cast the instruction as much more of a simple commandment, leaving off the "But if you do" clause entirely from the particular guidance. So in this case, the instruction is: "Don't reverse engineer competitor technology. Including, don't buy copies of competitor tech or go searching for i... (read more)