Concerned about privacy yet still using gmail, let’s hope this was the wakeup call they needed!
That was my take away too. Like I really wouldn’t want my lawyer using Gmail.
Here it is just outright spoiling a joke (censored, but you can see that it quotes the punchline):
Oh that’s downright evil.
The bit about avoidance might be insightful. Some people have anxiety about reading and writing, and the LLMs feel like they’re helping. But as this post says, they’re not. They’re making the anxiety worse in the long term.
Many people legitimately are bad at reading and writing. You’ll won’t find a ton of them here, on a platform that’s mostly text, but they’re out there. Struggling though life, probably embarrassed. An LLM that purports to let them skip uncomfortably engaging with text probably feels like a godsend. But it’s a trap. It’s a tarpit they’ll get stuck in and never develop skills of their own.
I keep telling people that AI will atrophy their brain the same way that tools like Google Maps did. We can’t navigate for shit now unless a piece of software tells us the route. The same thing is going to happen, but to really important judgment and thinking skills.
I’ve restored my navigation skills by playing through the Dark Souls trilogy. No map, no objective markers, just you and the slightly janky third person camera.
As someone with nearly 500 hours into Elden Ring, this tracks lol.
Damn, you just clicked for me why I have a pretty good sense of direction. I’ve occasionally impressed myself and others for years, with “do you not know how we got here?” or “well we came from that direction” in spite of a generally terrible memory and a passionate dislike of geography and learning street names, etc.
But you’re absolutely right, it’s video games: puzzle dungeons, huge open worlds, metroidvanias, I even prefer playing with the UI and maps off whenever possible, and somehow I’ve never made this connection before. Incredible.
This worked for me too but I still have trouble navigating landmarks that aren’t flaming wolfmen nailed to a cross, or colossal castles by the sea guarded by a dragon skeleton
I stopped using navigation for the most part. Mind you, I grew up using maps but it only took a couple months for my navigation skills to cone back.
2023 is when I first got a vehicle with a nav display, and that definitely dulled the more detailed navigation senses.
Cardinal directions still solid but the take a left on Y after X street info I had been cataloging in the back of my mind fell off quickly once I started turn by turn directions all the time.
reading speed of 1500 wpm
this is bait
That was the point where I thought “this guy is a wanker… but he’s right”
Not if he’s measuring his scanning speed and not his literal reading speed.
Which is the sort of thing that the folk who teach scanning to professionals who need to “read” hundreds of pages each day call their techniques. They used to be all over the place until enough people called them out on the mislabel.
(Not to mention three-cuing…)
He specifically says, “with full comprehension”, so, like I said.
Full comprehension just means you gathered the intent of the point the writer was trying to get across. You can easily do that with 20% of the words they wrote if you pick the right words. Scanning is basically training to find all the important words to fully piece together the idea as quickly as possible.
So 25 words per second may sound like alot, but it’s really the time necessary to find 5 words per second out of the crowd of 25. And like any other skill, it is something you get significantly better at with practice. Lawyers are gonna have alot of practice if they work on a skill like this.
Lawyering is well known to be a profession where words really aren’t important so you can miss out every other one and still just get the gist. No court case has ever been decided by pedantry over wording or meaning in legal texts after all.
It’s either that, or Legalese has an enormously low entropy.
Full comprehension implies - to me at least - that you are not just picking up the “intent of the point” but also subtler cues. No, you don’t need to read every single word in order to do that but 1500 words a minute with full comprehension is still horseshit.
yeah that’s three sentences a second
25 words per second. Like would you ever jog on with that.
I remember how years ago, I had always kept my Gmail settings on full-paranoia lockdown mode, aside from the auto mailbox sorting feature. However, the first time I had to write an email from that account in a long while, Google’s fucking suggested reply feature that uses all your email history showed up.
The fuck? I never gave permission for this shit.
After doing a deep-cleanse of all the settings on all my accounts again, I deleted all the emails after migrating them to Proton Mail, and keep Gmail accounts only to auto-forward and delete. Or to use the occasional bullshit Google form or document that needs a fucking Gmail login.
I always try to keep my privacy settings to “full paranoia” too. And livid that with each mandatory software update, Big Brother removes all my privacy settings 😠
https://www.tumblr.com/thelawfulchaotic/807267774110089216?source=share
I wanted to see the original post in my feed, so here’s the link if anyone else wants to reblog.
I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks for the link, I’ll add it to the post body just in case
if your lawyer uses google, microsoft or apple for email, maybe better look for another lawyer…
everything one of these (or other) giants know can be assumend to be compromised already in one way or possibly many others or at least in near future.
imagine you email your client some note, that he should carry some documents next time and the giant running word probability algorythms only to look later at the real outcome of the trial and the tactics used by you in front of court to be able to warn THEIR customers about what YOU might currently try to do in front of a court to win against someone. it intentionally removes parts of the value of your work to sell that to their customers while using data that is supposed to be private for reasons.
a lawyer who gives away hints about any of his actions to a tech giant NOW has a high probability that his work isnt worth a dime any longer in mid-term future only because of how lazy he was with his and his clients privacy TODAY.
just to mention.
The thing is, most people don’t care about privacy. Even if the person knows about the broader privacy issue, he/she may not care. It’s all about convenience and dopamine hit in the modern digitised world.
Also, the most privacy-respecting emails has less brand name recognition. Most people are accustomed to Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo. If they see Tuta as the email address, most people would think it’s odd and maybe even fake. In an industry where reputation and name recognition is important, especially in legal, Tuta would sound suspicious. I know I would feel the same if I weren’t familiar with Tuta and the lawyers uses Tuta. I know there is Proton, which has a more marketable name, but the CEO is a fascist-loving Trumper so it’s not any better for privacy in the future.
the point is that people who don’t care go to lawyers to tell them how to move forward with appropriate caution. and privacy with a lawyers actual communication should be included. remember how lawyers (in movies tbh) often say ‘let me talk, dont say anything at all’, thats “maybe” because saying anything could reveal something the other party could use to win. if that doesnt include emails to be private, then why not directly use facebook or 4chan instead to tell the ither party how to win against your client? *lol
so if your lawyer doesnt take specific caution into account by himself what he would be supposed to tell you to do anyway, that lawyer is imo at best a risky bet.
I don’t disagree. Although like I said, most people don’t really care about privacy. It’s a lot of hassle for them. Privacy is a nebulous idea that is not given much thought. If it’s out of sight, then it’s out of mind, until they see the objective consequences. I’ve lost count how many organisations I have heard to have been hacked, because the management didn’t pay enough attention to cybersecurity. Hell, most people already forgot that Musk and DOGE stole data from government files. But even then, it didn’t get enough uproar as much as other issues and brazen corruption.
Wall of Text starting with someone willfully misunderstanding the GUI.
Thumbs down is for AI sucked. Not AI sucks. You are rating the response, not the service you actively chose to use.
A thumbs up or thumbs down is purely a user vibe metric. If you want to filter out 'mis-use", put that as a fucking option in the follow-up or admit that your metrics are trash.
The AI response did suck, because it’s not needed for a two sentence email. It’s wasteful to offer a summary of such a short email. Especially if the summary used more words than the actual email.
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I thumbs down you.
Because AI evangelists suck.
Keep licking those boots. It won’t make Sam Altman any more likely to notice you.
