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Mike Godwin@mnemonic.bsky.social |
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Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may know me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.
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Mike Godwin
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Joe Biden gave up his presidential run in 1988 so he could go fight the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. (This is documented in Richard Ben Cramer's WHAT IT TAKES.) The Biden who put service to his country above ambition is the one I most admire.
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Mike Godwin
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The Constitution doesn't allow any federal or state court to impose punishment on a president or candidate for having conspired to pay off a bottle-blonde porn star in violation of FEC-administered campaign and spending regulations. I call this principle "Revlon deference."
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Mike Godwin
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My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complex:
Online conspiracy theorists turned me into “CIA Renee.”
By Renée DiResta www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Mike Godwin
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Post a PERFECT album from the 1990's that ISN'T Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alec in Chains
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Mike Godwin
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I was just coming here to share this with you.
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(I guess the Trump Administration was not quite so vaccine-skeptical after all.) Reuters: Trump-era Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during COVID pandemic www.reuters.com/investigates...
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This little fella just heard that Elon Musk may not receive the bonus from Tesla that he was hoping for.
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I had been hoping that my lifetime intake of microplastics would leave me more flexible.
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This op-ed helpfully clarifies what the prosecution team did right, what Trump's defense team did wrong, and what questions of law remain as possible grounds for appeal. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/o...
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Mike Godwin
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Senator Rubio has been shortlisted for the vice-presidency nomination because of course he has.
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(I have some commentary, captured in a screenshot below, on what the likely problem is.) "Google’s weird AI answers hint at a fundamental problem" wapo.st/44XDYnP
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IRONIC YET POINTED REJOINDER PLUS DISCLAIMER.
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Mike Godwin
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By tomorrow there will be people on TV explaining that saluting during "Amazing Grace" is a coded message to Christian supporters.
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Mike Godwin
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Now *that* is what you have to call a great DOCTOR WHO episode.
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There's no question that bias is a kind of ordering. But imposing bias requires observation, hence Maxwell's Demon, etc.
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Mike Godwin
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I understand that statistically driven LLMs can come up with the most probable ways to finish my sentences, but isn't the most probable sentence the one with the greatest entropy? (And does it *have* to end in my death?)
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Mike Godwin
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I've seen it. I feel like I could watch it every day, tbh.
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Chris Geidner
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LAW DORK EXCLUSIVE: Justice Alito sold Bud Light stock amidst anti-trans boycott effort www.lawdork.com/p/alito-bud-...
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Mike Godwin
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That would creep me out too.
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Mike Godwin
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Mine too! First name that came to mind.
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Mike Godwin
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It really works quite well (the novel) because you get direct access to several different POVs.
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I guess I can sort of understand why this image popped up in my Facebook feed. Because, as I've noted elsewhere, sooner or later an online discussion will devolve into debate about whether pocket T-shirts are back. www.facebook.com/groups/42298...
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Mike Godwin
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My LL.M. joke may be a little obscure.
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With the right makeup, Charlize Theron could play MTG in the movie.
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If I had known my legal career would require me to understand AI, I'd have gotten an LL.M. (It wouldn't be a verifiable fact that I understood AI, but I'd know the most probable ways to say I do.)
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Mike Godwin
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Sure, every Supreme Court may have one insurrectionist justice now and then, but isn't two perhaps a little too much?
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Think about how much thinking I had to do to get there.
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Mike Godwin
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I avoid French cats that practice law as a hobby: I call this my avocat-shun, but I don't chat much about it.
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Mike Godwin
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I keep starting the self-test for ADHD, but I never can make myself finish it.
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I should admit that when you detect "condescension" in anything I post, it's most often a symptom of frustration, impatience, and even rage that I'm suppressing. This is an imperfect solution to my emotional problems, but it does have the benefit (I believe) of improvements in my writing style.
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Trump actually does follow one philosophical precept: Test All Norms To Destruction. If he had been your kid, you too would have exiled him to military school.
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Netflix's UNFROSTED is a slow-building, lovingly parodic comedy that abruptly escalates into a deeply absurdist avalanche of jokes. Now if only Netflix would hire the writers of UNFROSTED--Seinfeld, Feresten, and Robin--to rewrite all the dialog in REBEL MOON.
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It's quite arresting!
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LinkedIn just asked me if I'd like an AI assistant to rewrite my posting. Geez, everybody's a critic!
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I had someone point me to the "verify" command in ChatGPT. It doesn't, in fact, verify; it produces something that simulates verification. Like all bullshitters, LLM-based AI generates something that has superficial plausibility--what it doesn't do (or at least not very often) is admit ignorance.
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I think that's not an unfair characterization.
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No #Cheers fan could have predicted that after the internet became our postal service, LLM-based AI would become our Cliff Clavin.
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No #Cheers fan could have predicted that after the internet became our postal service, LLM-based AI would become our Cliff Clavin.
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After quizzing ChatGPT with some straightforward factual questions to which it confidently gave wrong answers, I realized that my problem with LLM-based AI is not that "hallucinates" or "lies." It's that ChatGPT, as implemented, doesn't hesitate to produce bullshit.
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(Look, the $50B bonus has got to come from somewhere!) Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/b...
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I generally hate the White House Correspondents Dinner. But if Trump agrees to debate Biden, I pray that the debate organizers adopt the Correspondents Dinner format so that Biden and Trump can do alternating standup sets about each other.
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If only I could find $55 billion somewhere, I could use it to reboot development of the Cybertruck.
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The bigger question is whether Trump as president would insist that we withdraw from the Global Methane Pledge. www.zurich.com/media/magazi...
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Mike Godwin
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Hey, you should definitely visit Bali!
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Example of Blue Sky being awesome
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Mike Godwin
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Two really bright minds. My senior thesis grew out of reading thoughtful speculation and writing from each and both of them.
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Mike Godwin
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In theory, if someone is pretending to be me, I could still get the account suspended on Twitter.
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(Obit for one of the philosophers who has seriously shaped my thinking. Daniel Dennett, 1942-2024) This gift article from The New York Times can be read for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/b...
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Mike Godwin
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Perhaps you are looking at someone else’s account.
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I felt so guilty about my amusement at the product recall of Tesla Cybertrucks that I asked for an emergency appointment with my psychiatrist. Just another case of Shoddy-->Freud.
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