S.Marty Professor

Prof. Law/Tech/Math/AI - Current affairs analysis and opinion. 🇺🇲

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

Strongly agree. Having graded many law-student exams and tracked performance metrics for over a decade, I've generally seen the same tight clustering of outcomes semester after semester, with remarkably low variance—on the order of a percentage point or so in class averages and distributions.

The only real exception was during COVID, when remote learning and widespread pass/fail policies left genuine holes in foundational knowledge and analytical depth. While I'm fully sympathetic to the students' difficult situation—online instruction, isolation, uncertainty—it undeniably did them a disservice by letting many advance without fully mastering the material.

What worries me far more deeply now is the pattern with LLMs. Students are increasingly offloading the core cognitive work itself: closely reading primary sources, wrestling with ambiguities, synthesizing doctrines, testing hypotheticals against facts, and building their own reasoned conclusions. Instead, they feed material to AI, take the summaries or generated insights (even accurate ones without hallucinations), and treat that as enough. This is similar to how many people stopped remembering phone numbers once they could just enter them into their phone and rely on the contacts app. But this is much worse, because they're not reasoning through new material to understand it—they're relying on AI-generated insights, which, even if correct and non-hallucinating, deprives them of the essential cognitive exercise of integrating and truly absorbing the knowledge. They never own the material; they shortcut the process that builds lasting competence and mental resilience.

A clear indicator is that answers on exams and assignments are becoming strikingly uniform: they cluster tightly around the phrasing, structure, and insights dominant LLMs produce, mostly because I believe students are parroting what the AI tells them. When forced outside those lines—to confront a novel hypo, reconcile conflicting authorities, or craft an original argument under pressure—their reasoning collapses or turns shallow and rote, as they struggle to form new reasoning on their own.

For law students who'll become advocates needing to generate adaptive, persuasive analysis in high-stakes, unpredictable settings, this is profoundly troubling—concerning enough that I wonder if we're heading toward a generation of dumb people 10 years from now. If this becomes the default way of 'learning,' we risk graduating people who are cognitively underdeveloped in independent, innovative reasoning.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

@ThoughtCrimes80

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

@CatholicFQ Bullshit. The USCCB says no position is prescribed for the assembly during the Our Father. Folded hands, open hands, holding hands — none of it is in the Missal. Stop inventing rules and spreading lies. Then go to confession and be quiet.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

@BasedMikeLee @marthamaccallum How many times is @LeaderJohnThune going to sit on Fox News before someone asks why he won’t use the talking filibuster? The votes exist. It worked for the Civil Rights Act.
Shame on you @TheStoryFNC
and @FoxNews.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

@thegarybrecka No. What matters is a drop in your core temperature. That is not the same thing as a 67° room.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

Cloud seeding doesn’t create atmospheric moisture—it only enhances precipitation from clouds that already contain sufficient water vapor and suitable conditions. In the Southwest the limiting factor is often low vapor content / dew point, not a shortage of condensation nuclei. Alaska ≠ Colorado River or Great Salt Lake basins.

Technology will still help us solve a lot of these problems, just not this way at the scale claimed.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

Grew up raising cattle in the Midwest. Our cows are on grass most of the year and eat hay we make from our own fields in winter, so the pure cash feed cost is a lot lower than buying every bale. Still have land, equipment, labor, vet, fencing, etc. I support local ranchers and the idea of knowing your producer—your product looks solid—but the ‘must be cutting corners / unsafe’ jump from store prices feels overstated. Different systems (grazing, scale, grain finishing, trim for ground) change the math a lot. Appreciate the work y’all put in either way.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

No. Natural gas for home heating/cooking is completely different from using it for electricity generation. You’re igniting right at the appliance — far more efficient and cheaper than converting it to power, transmitting it, then turning it back into heat. That’s why gas bills are ~$50 while electric hits $300–$400+. The original post is about protecting direct home use of gas, not power plants. Your take misses the actual issue.

[Jon Caldara @JonCaldara]

Let me see if I get this. A state representative gets state taxpayer money for her not-for-profit, that pays her a $133k salary. (And this is legal?) Then her nonprofit gives our taxpayer money to buy signatures to raise our taxes? #coleg #copolitics

Rep. Garcia’s nonprofit has been very gracious to the Initiative 195 effort. https://t.co/CBUsgZJ3H3

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

You are lying. Just ask @grok.

@BellPolicy is dishonestly pushing Initiative 195 and disguising their controversial position as hard fact. They claim that if the competing tax-cap measure wins, regular Coloradans get zero tax cuts.

That’s false. Colorado law only overrides the parts that actually conflict—the lower rates for most people do not clash with a 4.4% cap.

They’re twisting the rules to scare people and advance their agenda.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

‼️FLOOD THE PHONES‼️

Tell the Senate to remain in DC until the SAVE America Act is passed.

Every Senate number begins w/ 202-224-XXXX.

“My name is ____. My zip code is ____. I’m asking Senator ____ to remain in DC until the SAVE America Act is passed. I vote in every election.”

Peacefully.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

@LeaderJohnThune Fertilizer transparency? No need. We can already see you’re full of shit.

Do your job.

[Monica Crowley @MonicaCrowley]

The whole point of these deliberate, orchestrated invasions is to destroy the West.

Fight back now or lose your country and civilization forever.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

🚨Seven Steps to Election Security

1. Call up the SAVE America Act.

2. Announce that we’ll keep debating it for at least a few weeks, working through weekends and scheduled recess time until it passes.

3. Require filibustering senators to speak, with the understanding that if they fail to do so the rules allow us to “call the question” and pass it at 51.

4. Stick to the plan—especially when it draws complaints from senators and becomes tedious—waiting at least a few weeks before even thinking about filing cloture.

5. This is how the Senate worked before we zombified the filibuster, making it automatic, silent, and free of obligation.

6. Filibuster abuse has become rampant, insurmountable, and even debilitating as we’ve stopped requiring filibustering senators to do *anything* other than oppose cloture—or even simply announce an intent to oppose cloture!

7. Human nature and over two centuries of Senate history tell us that when senators are required to engage in hard work and continual speaking to sustain a filibuster, they tend to wield it more responsibly.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

@SenKevinCramer @SenKevinCramer wants to join the club of primaried swamp rats who put themselves over the country:

Liz Cheney, Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn...

Kevin Cramer

His staff might want to start polishing the résumés.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I’m so glad the signers of the Declaration Independence didn’t stop and say “wait, we can’t do this because we don’t have 60 votes.”

Otherwise we’d be flying a different flag, speaking in a different accent, singing “God Save the King,” and receiving lame health and dental care.

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Some people have a way with words.

Others not have way.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

@martianwyrdlord Maybe AI will nail this sooner than we expect.

Grok Imagine is already generating authentic Odyssey scenes: https://t.co/ViODBiH3SK

[Heavy Pulp @heavypulp]

Dialogue scene from Homer's Odyssey built on Grok Imagine.
Thread on how this was built below.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

@endmyopia @grok give me the quick take here. What should I be doing according to this.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

I’m asking every donor with big pockets & influence to publicly issue a statement

that you will help to primary incumbent Republican Senators up for election in 2028

if the SAVE America Act is not passed.

Put the peaceful fear of God into the Senate.

[S.Marty Professor @ProfSmartyEsq]

Wow—this is problematic. @ColoradoGOP
gubernatorial candidate @victormarx
simply reposting a piece that tells conservatives it's American and smart to consider leaving Colorado. No comment, no call to stay and fight, no vision to turn it around.

A candidate should inspire Coloradoans to fix the state so families want to stay—not amplify the exit ramp. Another disappointing moment for the Colorado GOP.