Brian Thackston

(Non-practicing) Attorney and hatchet man in the fight against lawlessness.

Marketing/Ops/Legal

life is art|art is life

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

leaning into the discomfort and reflecting i suppose

very truly yours,

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[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

As with fat tails Llms are frequency machines that fail to extrapolate outside the sample set. What they know is the VISIBLE.

Almost as bad as economists, almost worse than psychologists.

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@scottastevenson @tszzl you can try to polish a turd but it will always smell

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@willchen500 The fact that Mike is mentioned in the same breath as Harvey et al here speaks volumes

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@shaydeofgold for Copilot, two potentially helpful options:
- Projects (where you can sync a folder with files + instructions)
- Agents (where you can build the prompt and simply upload a file)

Requires some tinkering + Satan himself designed Microsoft's subscription / feature availability

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@chiajy2000 lack of fee type diversity = not needing to run firms like a real business (feature vs. bug)

and judges loom large with strong incentive to protect the guild (administrative burden of XXX% increases in pro se-esque if nothing else)

but outside litigation, it's gonna get wild

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@chiajy2000 yep. the guild shall rage against the dying of the light

but even when they're the ones setting the rules... that rage feels quite impotent here

client preferences already changing with and without them

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

Lololol yep

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@fleetingbits Real battle is PE + cracked back office x foundation ai models (i.e. not Harvey/Legora)

MSOs solve equity issue via back office profits

It's going to get wild in legal

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@fleetingbits Real battle is PE + cracked back office x foundation ai models (i.e. not Harvey/Legora)

MSOs solve equity issue via back office profits

It's going to get wild in legal

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

drawing a hot jean bath for a soak

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Details:
Temperature alternating between 60 and 80 >> temperature constant at 70.
#Antifragile
@mathoncbro is working on protocols of variable dosing in Medicine.

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

Harvey this, Legora that...

It's this not-new-financial-engineering that's going to be most innovative for US law firms over the next decade

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@ashleymayer @joelle_emerson the reddit AMA yesterday was also insightful here

patent lawyers, ahoy!

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@zackbshapiro right up there with "plumber" if i'm tracking correctly

[Elizabeth @suasoptics]

Hey lazy people: the Vatican made infographics for you

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

I may need to be more careful with ai

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

@RobertFreundLaw well you see it all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

POPEYES is my preferred email provider

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

why would you be telling me this?

[Brian Thackston @GuyDoingThings]

Nike: the goddess of victory

BA-79 Missile Site. a relic of the Cold War