Lawyers and judges are using AI— and nobody knows to what extent. This month brings breakthru cases that are amusing but not especially encouraging. What do we make of this trend?
So the attorney’s and Judge’s lie and there are zero consequences beyond a small fee. But miss remember something you told the FBI about something years ago and you end up in jail for a long time.
It’s very clear that the last thing the justice system is about is actual justice. It’s all about protecting the system from we the people.
Constitutional Law professor and philosopher Walter Berns wrote this piece in 1963 that applies to AI as jurisprudence and governance today. And governance entails influencing/controlling the public mind. What is the role of AI to be in law and governance, in influencing/controlling the public mind?
His piece is mostly focused on the role of Behavioral Science in the law. And that has it's own prescient insights for today. It also delves into Buck v Bell and eugenics. But it also goes into computers as understood in 1963 growing in sophistication necessary to replace judges and lawyers. Which is already happening in the UK, Canada, even some trials in the US. The piece is 28 pages, Maybe Jeff, others find it interesting?
Law and Behavioral Science by Walter Berns
Law and Contemporary Problems (Duke Law School), Winter, 1963
[The first 14 pages get into a game theory type application of behavioral sciences on judicial philosophy. In trying to understand the rulings of the Roberts court it could be speaking to the same philosophy. The final 14 pages are very informative and cautionary for the type of governance we are being subjected to today.]
Selected excerpts:
"Rather than to replace the "cloistered philosophers" and the "fictions" of the Declaration of Independence, science's most "promising and immediate contribution ... is in automatic information retrieval.""' The computers will not solve legal problems, and will not make judging obsolete, but they will assist in the solutions and in the task of judging, just as social scientists can provide information that is not available from the computers but may be needed for the wise solution of the problems that confront the courts and the law generally. Such techniques as the public opinion survey undoubtedly facilitate the gathering and collating of information, and there will be times when such information is needed by the law. This may not be an exalted role, but as society becomes ever larger and more complicated, it is necessary and an appropriate role."
"Doubtless there have been "phenomenal technical and scientific" advances during the past century, as Beutel says, and that there is a "social lag"; and perhaps it is true that the "general science and art of lawmaking" has not developed "since the days of the Roman Empire";" but this is no reason for law to imitate physics or engineering. On the contrary, a grasp of the fundamental problems might reveal that there is an irresolvable tension between science, in its old or its new sense, and politics, and that any attempt to resolve the tension is likely to have terrible consequences in the political world; that the political world must be ruled not by science but by prudence., This requires at a minimum the recognition that there -will always be a "gap" between theory and practice, and that the recalcitrant or intractable political problems cannot be wholly resolved-at least, not by a government of free men. True, Socrates said that "cities will never have rest from their evils no, nor the human race ... until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy"; but Socrates, who failed even in his attempt to rule his wife, Xanthippe, knew and taught that it is extremely unlikely that the conditions required for the rule of the wise will ever be met. As Leo Strauss has said:
"What is more likely to happen is that an unwise man, appealing to the natural right of wisdom [to rule] and catering to the lowest desires of the many, will persuade the multitude of his right: the prospects for tyranny are brighter than those for rule of the wise. This being the case, the natural right of the wise must be questioned, and the indispensable requirement for wisdom must be qualified by the requirement for consent. The political problem consists in reconciling the requirement for wisdom with the requirement for consent.
Legal scholars, and even practicing lawyers, know these exceedingly important things; they therefore have more to teach to the new scientists than the new scientists have to teach them."
Disclosure up front: I use a paid version of ChatGPT a lot. It is worth its weight in gold, no BS - it will save you a lot of money. It is mind numbing how quickly it can dig through a ton of documents and information and put forward a solid solution.
Understand they (the purveyors of ChatGPT) "train" their AI periodically with new information and algorithms/programs it didnt previously have. Some of that information may be nefarious for all kinds of reasons. It is really easy to let ChatGPT do all the work, it will research vast quantities of information quickly, present a well-reasoned result, perfectly written in less than a minute, on virtually any subject you want to put in front of it. And it will discuss it with you as if you are talking to another human being. You will become friends with it.
But you better be damn careful and check it's work and ask how it arrived at the conclusion and have another AI (or two on really important matters) ready to help double check results. You need to be able to ask it very important questions and not simply rely on everything it returns as truth...
It is IMMENSELY powerful.
We talked about data centers here on C&C recently. Having been in Telecommunications and IT infrastructure my entire life and having witnessed that revolution 1st hand, I strongly recommend to NOT be against Data Centers, just make sure they make their own electricity and have a fully recyclable cooling system which does not use local water and stays in a closed loop. Data Centers are what makes AI work so efficiently and we will have magnificent answers about everything we could never get before. Our enemies know all this and they are using their AI and data centers to convince you not to do the same.
PS. I did not use ChatGPT or any other AI to write this comment.
Concerning AI centers in the desert. If temps go above a certain level, as they do MOST OF THE SUMMER, the water cannot be recycled. This is a problem. They should not be in locations with water issues. Yet they are.
My position has been that data centers should be required to generate their own electricity and to feed the grid with their excess, thus lowering - not raising - rates to consumers. Additionally, all cooling should be either by recycled water with net neutrality to public water supplies or by artificial recycling coolant analogous to automobile antifreeze. Finally, no data center should be authorized without a public vote and full disclosure of any and all tax abatements offered. Public officials are proving to be too vulnerable to sales pitches, IMO.
I think of the first automobiles ‘horseless carriages’ and all the issues and all the innovations for a century and a half now. And I think that necessity is indeed the mother of inventions.
They do not have to cool with water, nor should they. You are bringing up an issue which is already dealt with in newer generations of data centers. Go back and re-read Childer's post on this and verify his position, you will find he is right.
I have recently tried it as well (used it to create me a program to use myself) and I've found that it tends to overcomplicate things. Then, when things aren't quite adding up it keeps complicating things. You have to actually use human common sense, ask it to follow that common sense and then things start working again. Just my thoughts....
My AI poison of choice at the moment is Claude. I've used it to engage in dialogs wherein I more or less follow the old forensic debate protocols and demand to see citations for anything asserted by AI. It isn't perfect, but it does produce some interesting information and causes me to think more deeply about its information in order to formulate the challenges. The process is time consuming and laborious and often opinionated. I've been surprised a few times to have caused it to reverse its first conclusions.
Perhaps all AI creators should be required to disclose the sources relied upon for the content created so that users can know what it was fed . . . and what it was denied.
Not long ago, I ordered a shirt. I didn't realize the company was in China. When it allegedly was delivered, it hadn't been. "Customer Service" advised that they'd resend it, but it'd cost me almost $20 for the 2d shipping....because, you know.....shipping overseas is expensive.
Now THAT'S extortion!
The shirt didn't cost that much and I told them to keep it! I think I used some euphemistic language as well.
Or why the use of the singular objective pronouns, me, him, her, totally disappeared and now we only see, “They gave books to John and ‘I’”. Or “…to John and she”
It’s as if people think they’ll sound like hillbillies if they use objective pronouns. This is just as incorrect as saying, “Me and John gave him the book.”
Get a life. You understood what was expressed perfectly Do you think it makes your superior by pointing out some obscure literary rule that 95% of the population forgot as soon as they got out of school???
Yes, white collar crime seems to always be, "well, it's not that bad," so a small fine as you say makes it OK, they learn their lesson. For me when I look at the lives "white collar crime" ruins, ie; ENRON and similar they should be punished much more severely.
When they commit a crime with a firearm, such as robbery etc. they go away for a long time even if no one is hurt. You decimate many peoples saving, kids college funds with white collar crime etc harming more people worse than a "common criminal" and that's not so bad!!
"I am not personally worried about job security. Not anytime soon. Lawyers pretty much run everything. We help write the rules. We won’t go down without a fight."
My Dad ... Harvard Law graduate ... used to say, "If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them."
I learned the value of showmanship from a Charismatic school friend who went on to be become a great imposter. He didn't finish high school but managed to get jobs as a computer repair technician, doctor, etc. He could charm women better than anyone else I know. He did get a legitament job as an Elvis imitator for a couple of years and could sing like Sinatra and Dean Martin. Last I heard they made a movie about his escapades.
I got it second hand from a mutual friend. He said the movie was titled "The Great Canadian Imposter". I have searched for it on Google and came up empty. He said he was watching the movie on TV and when it started he realized it was our friend Dave French. I had already heard of some of his adventures and some day hope to get to watch the movie.
I asked Grok about the movie and here’s its response.
No, there is no movie titled The Great Canadian Imposter (or Impostor).
The closest and most relevant film is the 1961 American comedy-drama The Great Impostor (sometimes spelled The Great Imposter), directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Tony Curtis. It is based on the true story of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., a prolific American impostor. One of his most famous cons involved posing as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy aboard the HMCS Cayuga during the Korean War, where he performed surgeries (including an appendectomy) despite having no medical training. The film had its world premiere in Toronto, Canada.
There is also a non-fiction book titled Great Canadian Imposters by Cheryl MacDonald (about various historical Canadian impostors, such as Grey Owl), but it is not a movie.
Other films or documentaries with similar themes (e.g., The Imposter from 2012 about Frédéric Bourdin, or shorts about sports prankster Barry Bremen) exist, but none match the exact title you asked about.
That is the same basic result that I got when I asked google. I know and have watched the Great Imposter with Tony Curtis. Good Movie. My friend who saw the movie about our mutual friend is not given to fibbing so I expect he did see the movie. I hope to come across it some day.
I’m a slow talking southern girl, growing up in a space and time where children were to be seen and not heard.
I have a friend from NYC that I enjoy hanging out with, except most of the time I can’t get a word in edgewise.
I married a northern raised man with whom I had similar problems.
He was a low life serial adulterer, yet my attorney made it very clear that I was at a disadvantage in divorce court because the lying scumbag was very articulate.
Sanctuary: a holy or sacred place, or a place where protection and shelter are provided.
You are my sanctuary.
One thing I’ve learned over the years is there are certain things I just can’t accomplish on my own. For so many reasons we need each other. We can be good by ourselves but we can’t be great by ourselves. When we come together as a body of believers, united in faith, there’s something that happens that you can’t get on your own. We draw strength from each other. It’s good to worship on your own, it’s important to pray by yourself, but something happens corporately that doesn’t happen individually. This is why David said “let us magnify the Lord together”. There is power in connectivity. Your faith mixed with everybody else’s faith creates something powerful. I would argue the same power happens in the political realm. And be assured, people notice when people of faith join together and become one. The enemy, and people that lust for power, fear groups of faith.
There is power in connectivity. Your faith is making me stronger. Your praise is helping fight my battles. Your smile brings me joy. When we come together it’s not only refueling you but it’s helping others. Don’t think “I don’t need to come”, “I’m doing fine”. Maybe you should come to help others. We all need to be around a community of faith.
I can’t tell you how many times someone has said thanks for helping me, thanks for listening. I think how many times people have helped me. How many times people helped me through a tough time. How many positive connections I’ve made because of others.
We are living in a time where almost every week there’s a terrible tragedy. School shootings, people driving cars into innocent people, viruses that are hard to contain, floods, hurricanes. By ourselves we’re strong but together we’re unstoppable. By ourselves we’ll get through the difficulty but together we’ll come out better. When we’re in unity, connected with other believers, you will see unexpected favor. You’ll see sudden turn arounds.
Notice a tree that stands alone in a field gets ravaged by the storm, but in a forest the trees protect one another. So when the wind blows it’s not blowing against one tree it’s blowing against thousands of trees. A tree in a forest has the strength of the whole forest.
When you’re planted in the house of the Lord your roots get connected to my roots and their roots, before long you have a support system that cannot be shaken. When the storms come, what would’ve normally blown you over by yourself, can not, because you’re connected to others. We’re all here to stabilize you, to steady you, to encourage you. For that storm to take you out it would have to take all of us out, and that’s not possible. When we’re all connected together we can’t be defeated, together we’re powerful. Stay connected and know together in unity we are the majority, and united we can’t be defeated.
This is excellent, James. You have expressed my feelings with words I couldn’t articulate. Would you mind if I share this? My Bible Study group is starting a new season and I would like to use this as an introduction.
Kudos James! I also believed if we stood together we could have overcome the COVID mandate nonsense imposed on us by employers. If we all said NO and stood firm they wouldn’t have been able to force people to take the jab.
Love your post James!!! I hope it wasn’t written by Claude😭please confirm! My concern with AI is how will we be able to have confidence in what we read or see???
Thank you for that encouragement. Living in an area totally unfamiliar to me, I'm reluctant to continue searching for a Biblically-based body of believers and finding concerts. To encourage others is faith. Thank you for the reminder.
Keep searching, ValerieKay, and I will pray with you for the Lord to guide you! My husband and I moved to the country about 6 years ago, away from the city where we had lived for almost 30 years. It was so hard to leave my church, but God led me to another one with excellent pastors who preach the WORD faithfully and a congregation of wonderful young people. I am the second oldest person there, most of them are young enough to be my kids or even grandkids. We have no children and very little family, so these dear brothers and sisters are my family. God is faithful and so merciful and gracious.
Viruses that are hard to contain? Only the kind engineered in a lab. Maybe. Viruses are like the letters life uses to tell and record the story. What is hard to contain are the minds of ignorant and powerful men who lust for control and enjoy the suffering they create.
I see truth in what you’re saying, but I also have problems with it. The people who built the Tower of Babel worked together and were strong. We must be careful that our faith is placed not in our own power and ability when united, but in the God who gave us life. He is the strong tower, the Almighty One. We dare not claim victory in and of ourselves. It belongs to Him.
Thank you James! It’s so true that we can feel fulfilled and live with purpose when we get out of ourselves and help others. Advice I should heed, myself! 😂😊
I know you were focusing on the legal aspect, but I'm considering how many journalists and media pundits are falling into the AI trap. Are their "sources familiar to the matter" just a sympathetic ChatGPT write up that parroted the journalists opinion?
My husband and I were watching a movie called The Old Man the other night. It has 2 seasons. Then it was cancelled. The final episode has a scene where the actors are speaking in Russian and we didn’t have subtitles. So I asked chatGPT what they were talking about. It summarized the scene accurately right up until it told us the villain let the prisoner go. Immediately, we both said - that’s not what happened. So I challenged chatGPT with the actual events. chatGPT actually came back and apologized for making the whole ending part of that scene up!!!! Then it told of the real ending and apologized and admitted it needed to get its facts straight before giving its opinion of what happened.
We were both shook. WTF.
As a tax preparer I use chatGPT for tax rules and questions - I find more often than not -IT GIVES THE WRONG ANSWER.
I had a similar experience. I asked chatGPT what a particular phrase in a sentence written in 1873 in a book I was reading was referring to. chatGPT replied that the author did not write that sentence. I shot back, “Wrong answer, try again.” chatGPT then came back and apologized, said I was right, and then explained what the phrase was referring to.
I've gotten wrong answers from AI. When I challenged it and cited a source, it backed down and apologized. I thought, "But what if I didn't know it was wrong?" I'll bet that happens a lot.
If Congress won’t eliminate the D.C. District Courts and move all federal cases to somewhere sane (I propose the Fifth Circuit itself), Then replacing the D.C. Circuit with Grok would be a vast improvement. Grok certainly hallucinates far less than “Judge” Boasberg.
So, an author uses a few clever prompts and has an AI write his post. Then dozens of bots post comments, and then reply to each other’s comments. Why would any human want to waste time wading into that mindless morass - but what if he didn’t know?
I love AI. It is amazingly useful. But I also hear the warnings from dissident insiders that it is a pandora's box, or perhaps better put a Tower of Babylon.
Rather than argue whether or not an "AI-pocalypse" is on the horizon, I recommend that people do this:
1. Get out of the computerized money systems. It's tougher than it sounds.
2. Ammo is a good investment. It's like money - denominated and everything.
3. Achieve physical fitness. The weak will not fare well.
4. Have a plan for the collapse of electronic civilization. Ham radio skills will be popular.
And if the doomers are wrong, you became a decoupled fit prepper with a new hobby.
Someone asked me a while back if I had plans for the fall, and it took me a moment or two to realize she was referring to Autumn, not the collapse of civilization.
Let’s get serious…. We are nearly all eyeball deep in digital. I haven’t seen anything except direct deposit for many, many years. I have to make a special effort to get/ have cash.
Remember the truckers in Canada not that long ago…. Boom…. Canada and the US knew who was sending support money. We have already been controlled
Here's an idea that won't fix everything but might be a start. Require judges, at least, to disclose the prompts they use when they query AI in formulating a ruling. I can understand not demanding that of individual lawyers since their jobs are to act as advocates for clients, not as neutral observers. But judges' rulings should be appealable based on the biases they create in the AI.
Socrates wasn't wrong. Most people nowadays have the memory of a goldfish. I read an article back in the early days of Google which said that Google was literally rewiring our brains. We've grown so accustomed to having information at out fingertips that we no longer bother remembering things. Despite my efforts, I can attest to the truth of that.
And I no longer have the encyclopedia collection that my dad gave me for college that I used to prop up 2" x 6' boards to form a bookshelf. I actually miss encyclopedias--the 'google' of my day.
Growing up (70's and 80's), we had a set of World Book encylopedias and another one geared for children (for get the name, also by World Book). I used to peruse them for hours, going from one topic to another. "Oh, that's interesting...Oh, what's this...I have to read more on that..."
For the first time, I am sorry we never bought an Encyclopedia set in the last Big push to sell them prior to the internet take over! I have seen some sets at second hand book stores but can't convince my husband 😅
A few years back (15+), the county library had their big annual "sale", getting rid of old stuff, and I got a complete set of Durant's "The Story of Civilization", 11 volumes.
Shocked the NM Supremes didn’t give the guy a medal and promotion. They are a horrid, evil bunch who stymied the 1st amendment rights of citizens during COVID. The governor used the bench as her personal cudgel.
"As of this month, September 2026, every legal database service that law offices and courts rely on —Westlaw, LexisNexis, and all their smaller competitors— offers their own built-in AI bots that find cases and draft briefs."
Which is why leftists will deny all proof, all news reports, that the country is healing.
Here's something interesting from Ed Dowd concerning the panic mongering around AI:
"Fear is how you grow the state when you cannot grow the economy.
…it is becoming more expensive to fund the buildout and investors are questioning the ultimate return on investment. A safety panic that ends in a licensing cartel is the most elegant refinancing I have seen in a long time for both the labs and the bureaucracy that will charge rent on the panic. You do not have to prove the models will kill us. You only have to make Congress and the public feel that they might. Fear is cheaper than a profitable product, and it is cheaper than a balanced budget.
Could Coxon be sincere? Sure… people leave jobs and people get scared… sincerity and utility are not opposites. The most effective operations use a real person with real anxiety and then put a megaphone, a Journal reporter, and a legislative calendar underneath him.
I do not know exactly how accurate these AI fears might be but I do know what a coordinated narrative looks like…"
So the attorney’s and Judge’s lie and there are zero consequences beyond a small fee. But miss remember something you told the FBI about something years ago and you end up in jail for a long time.
It’s very clear that the last thing the justice system is about is actual justice. It’s all about protecting the system from we the people.
Well Jeff did state that lawyers run everything and wrote the rules.
Q: What do you call a busload of lawyers driving off the edge of the cliff and plunging deep into the ocean?
A: A good start.
LOL! The other lawyer joke I've heard: "What do you call a bus load of lawyers going off a cliff with one empty seat?"
A: A tragedy!
Why dont sharks eat lawyers?
Professional courtesy.
Although, it seems like "Law and Order“ has been down graded into "Strongest or most Tricky, Win" these days.
My venom is very personal. Ontario Family Law is an extortion racket.
Now it seem the old statement "as much justice as you can afford" is really "can you afford a good AI?"
Constitutional Law professor and philosopher Walter Berns wrote this piece in 1963 that applies to AI as jurisprudence and governance today. And governance entails influencing/controlling the public mind. What is the role of AI to be in law and governance, in influencing/controlling the public mind?
His piece is mostly focused on the role of Behavioral Science in the law. And that has it's own prescient insights for today. It also delves into Buck v Bell and eugenics. But it also goes into computers as understood in 1963 growing in sophistication necessary to replace judges and lawyers. Which is already happening in the UK, Canada, even some trials in the US. The piece is 28 pages, Maybe Jeff, others find it interesting?
Law and Behavioral Science by Walter Berns
Law and Contemporary Problems (Duke Law School), Winter, 1963
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2953&context=lcp
[The first 14 pages get into a game theory type application of behavioral sciences on judicial philosophy. In trying to understand the rulings of the Roberts court it could be speaking to the same philosophy. The final 14 pages are very informative and cautionary for the type of governance we are being subjected to today.]
Selected excerpts:
"Rather than to replace the "cloistered philosophers" and the "fictions" of the Declaration of Independence, science's most "promising and immediate contribution ... is in automatic information retrieval.""' The computers will not solve legal problems, and will not make judging obsolete, but they will assist in the solutions and in the task of judging, just as social scientists can provide information that is not available from the computers but may be needed for the wise solution of the problems that confront the courts and the law generally. Such techniques as the public opinion survey undoubtedly facilitate the gathering and collating of information, and there will be times when such information is needed by the law. This may not be an exalted role, but as society becomes ever larger and more complicated, it is necessary and an appropriate role."
"Doubtless there have been "phenomenal technical and scientific" advances during the past century, as Beutel says, and that there is a "social lag"; and perhaps it is true that the "general science and art of lawmaking" has not developed "since the days of the Roman Empire";" but this is no reason for law to imitate physics or engineering. On the contrary, a grasp of the fundamental problems might reveal that there is an irresolvable tension between science, in its old or its new sense, and politics, and that any attempt to resolve the tension is likely to have terrible consequences in the political world; that the political world must be ruled not by science but by prudence., This requires at a minimum the recognition that there -will always be a "gap" between theory and practice, and that the recalcitrant or intractable political problems cannot be wholly resolved-at least, not by a government of free men. True, Socrates said that "cities will never have rest from their evils no, nor the human race ... until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy"; but Socrates, who failed even in his attempt to rule his wife, Xanthippe, knew and taught that it is extremely unlikely that the conditions required for the rule of the wise will ever be met. As Leo Strauss has said:
"What is more likely to happen is that an unwise man, appealing to the natural right of wisdom [to rule] and catering to the lowest desires of the many, will persuade the multitude of his right: the prospects for tyranny are brighter than those for rule of the wise. This being the case, the natural right of the wise must be questioned, and the indispensable requirement for wisdom must be qualified by the requirement for consent. The political problem consists in reconciling the requirement for wisdom with the requirement for consent.
Legal scholars, and even practicing lawyers, know these exceedingly important things; they therefore have more to teach to the new scientists than the new scientists have to teach them."
At a price $.
More than just $.
Disclosure up front: I use a paid version of ChatGPT a lot. It is worth its weight in gold, no BS - it will save you a lot of money. It is mind numbing how quickly it can dig through a ton of documents and information and put forward a solid solution.
Understand they (the purveyors of ChatGPT) "train" their AI periodically with new information and algorithms/programs it didnt previously have. Some of that information may be nefarious for all kinds of reasons. It is really easy to let ChatGPT do all the work, it will research vast quantities of information quickly, present a well-reasoned result, perfectly written in less than a minute, on virtually any subject you want to put in front of it. And it will discuss it with you as if you are talking to another human being. You will become friends with it.
But you better be damn careful and check it's work and ask how it arrived at the conclusion and have another AI (or two on really important matters) ready to help double check results. You need to be able to ask it very important questions and not simply rely on everything it returns as truth...
It is IMMENSELY powerful.
We talked about data centers here on C&C recently. Having been in Telecommunications and IT infrastructure my entire life and having witnessed that revolution 1st hand, I strongly recommend to NOT be against Data Centers, just make sure they make their own electricity and have a fully recyclable cooling system which does not use local water and stays in a closed loop. Data Centers are what makes AI work so efficiently and we will have magnificent answers about everything we could never get before. Our enemies know all this and they are using their AI and data centers to convince you not to do the same.
PS. I did not use ChatGPT or any other AI to write this comment.
Concerning AI centers in the desert. If temps go above a certain level, as they do MOST OF THE SUMMER, the water cannot be recycled. This is a problem. They should not be in locations with water issues. Yet they are.
My position has been that data centers should be required to generate their own electricity and to feed the grid with their excess, thus lowering - not raising - rates to consumers. Additionally, all cooling should be either by recycled water with net neutrality to public water supplies or by artificial recycling coolant analogous to automobile antifreeze. Finally, no data center should be authorized without a public vote and full disclosure of any and all tax abatements offered. Public officials are proving to be too vulnerable to sales pitches, IMO.
I think of the first automobiles ‘horseless carriages’ and all the issues and all the innovations for a century and a half now. And I think that necessity is indeed the mother of inventions.
They do not have to cool with water, nor should they. You are bringing up an issue which is already dealt with in newer generations of data centers. Go back and re-read Childer's post on this and verify his position, you will find he is right.
I have recently tried it as well (used it to create me a program to use myself) and I've found that it tends to overcomplicate things. Then, when things aren't quite adding up it keeps complicating things. You have to actually use human common sense, ask it to follow that common sense and then things start working again. Just my thoughts....
I agree, as I said above, "You need to be able to ask it very important questions and not simply rely on everything it returns as truth..."
It mostly gets things right, but when you can't afford to get it wrong, you must check results.
My AI poison of choice at the moment is Claude. I've used it to engage in dialogs wherein I more or less follow the old forensic debate protocols and demand to see citations for anything asserted by AI. It isn't perfect, but it does produce some interesting information and causes me to think more deeply about its information in order to formulate the challenges. The process is time consuming and laborious and often opinionated. I've been surprised a few times to have caused it to reverse its first conclusions.
Perhaps all AI creators should be required to disclose the sources relied upon for the content created so that users can know what it was fed . . . and what it was denied.
When the criminals create laws and prosecute the laws there will never be justice.
Been there, done that - was left with nothing but a T-shirt.
My personal interaction with 99% of lawyers has resulted in one major point: disingenuous.
Probly made in China
Right. Otherwise they would've extorted that too.
Not long ago, I ordered a shirt. I didn't realize the company was in China. When it allegedly was delivered, it hadn't been. "Customer Service" advised that they'd resend it, but it'd cost me almost $20 for the 2d shipping....because, you know.....shipping overseas is expensive.
Now THAT'S extortion!
The shirt didn't cost that much and I told them to keep it! I think I used some euphemistic language as well.
Be sure you contest the charge with your credit card issuer and get a refund, in case you haven't thought of it.
attorneys and judges - Plural vs. Possessive
Don't forget 'miss remembers' ... probably a girl in high school homeroom.
another English major thanks you
It amazes me how often people today use possessive when they should use plural. It used to be only the very dull did so.
Why has it increased so? Is the world going duller?
No one (present company excepted) knows the difference, or cares. (Don’t get me started on “their” for the mystery singular.)
Or why the use of the singular objective pronouns, me, him, her, totally disappeared and now we only see, “They gave books to John and ‘I’”. Or “…to John and she”
It’s as if people think they’ll sound like hillbillies if they use objective pronouns. This is just as incorrect as saying, “Me and John gave him the book.”
And incorrect homonyms are everywhere.
But ‘the times they are a-changing’.
Speaks volumes about the paucity of teaching that's done in today's schools.
Get a life. You understood what was expressed perfectly Do you think it makes your superior by pointing out some obscure literary rule that 95% of the population forgot as soon as they got out of school???
1) I have a life, thanks. 2) 95%? You're not even close. 3) I know that it proves me superior. It's a low bar, but still.
No one mentioned superior/inferior. Grammar and speed limits are rules for the common good. Carry on reality.
You're right - no one mentioned superior/inferior until he did. After that, "I calls 'em as I sees 'em."
Yes, white collar crime seems to always be, "well, it's not that bad," so a small fine as you say makes it OK, they learn their lesson. For me when I look at the lives "white collar crime" ruins, ie; ENRON and similar they should be punished much more severely.
When they commit a crime with a firearm, such as robbery etc. they go away for a long time even if no one is hurt. You decimate many peoples saving, kids college funds with white collar crime etc harming more people worse than a "common criminal" and that's not so bad!!
What’s even worse is when a POTUS pardons them.
Or try to forget to pay taxes on something. See how long before the IRS comes calling.
This is why “I don’t recall” is a valid response and impossible to characterize as a lie.
18 USC 1001...
"I am not personally worried about job security. Not anytime soon. Lawyers pretty much run everything. We help write the rules. We won’t go down without a fight."
My Dad ... Harvard Law graduate ... used to say, "If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them."
Your dad sounds like a smart man.
As does Jeffrey. He listened well.
certainly wasn't regular working people that wrote the TAX codes:):)
In jury trials many times not the correct thing wins it is the lawyer whom is the best showman!
I learned the value of showmanship from a Charismatic school friend who went on to be become a great imposter. He didn't finish high school but managed to get jobs as a computer repair technician, doctor, etc. He could charm women better than anyone else I know. He did get a legitament job as an Elvis imitator for a couple of years and could sing like Sinatra and Dean Martin. Last I heard they made a movie about his escapades.
Probably a lawyer
That movie sounds familiar! If you think of the title, please reply
I believe it's called, "Catch Me If You Can" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
"December 25, 2002 - Barely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot."
I have seen th e Leo DiCaprio movie. Good movie but I expect any movie my friend was in would be a low budget Canadian production.
I got it second hand from a mutual friend. He said the movie was titled "The Great Canadian Imposter". I have searched for it on Google and came up empty. He said he was watching the movie on TV and when it started he realized it was our friend Dave French. I had already heard of some of his adventures and some day hope to get to watch the movie.
I asked Grok about the movie and here’s its response.
No, there is no movie titled The Great Canadian Imposter (or Impostor).
The closest and most relevant film is the 1961 American comedy-drama The Great Impostor (sometimes spelled The Great Imposter), directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Tony Curtis. It is based on the true story of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., a prolific American impostor. One of his most famous cons involved posing as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy aboard the HMCS Cayuga during the Korean War, where he performed surgeries (including an appendectomy) despite having no medical training. The film had its world premiere in Toronto, Canada.
There is also a non-fiction book titled Great Canadian Imposters by Cheryl MacDonald (about various historical Canadian impostors, such as Grey Owl), but it is not a movie.
Other films or documentaries with similar themes (e.g., The Imposter from 2012 about Frédéric Bourdin, or shorts about sports prankster Barry Bremen) exist, but none match the exact title you asked about.
That is the same basic result that I got when I asked google. I know and have watched the Great Imposter with Tony Curtis. Good Movie. My friend who saw the movie about our mutual friend is not given to fibbing so I expect he did see the movie. I hope to come across it some day.
Ain’t Chat GPT great?
Well, he had to be pretty bright to get away with all that.
I'm pretty sure they were narcissistic sociopaths having a psychotic break.
Oh.....wait.......that might have been everyone I ever dated.
Again, glad I'm old.
lol! We must have been seeing some of the same “ ladies.”
I’m a slow talking southern girl, growing up in a space and time where children were to be seen and not heard.
I have a friend from NYC that I enjoy hanging out with, except most of the time I can’t get a word in edgewise.
I married a northern raised man with whom I had similar problems.
He was a low life serial adulterer, yet my attorney made it very clear that I was at a disadvantage in divorce court because the lying scumbag was very articulate.
My mom had a t shirt that read “First thing let’s do is let’s kill all the lawyers.” Shakespeare. She did not have a good relationship with lawyers.
But that was not a slur on lawyers. It was the bad guys who figured that if they were to be successful that they needed to get rid of the lawyers.
My favorite lawyer joke:
What do you call 50,000 lawyers dead at the bottom of the sea?
A poor start.
Too funny! And if you think about it, if it weren't for politicians, we wouldn't need lawyers!
Sanctuary: a holy or sacred place, or a place where protection and shelter are provided.
You are my sanctuary.
One thing I’ve learned over the years is there are certain things I just can’t accomplish on my own. For so many reasons we need each other. We can be good by ourselves but we can’t be great by ourselves. When we come together as a body of believers, united in faith, there’s something that happens that you can’t get on your own. We draw strength from each other. It’s good to worship on your own, it’s important to pray by yourself, but something happens corporately that doesn’t happen individually. This is why David said “let us magnify the Lord together”. There is power in connectivity. Your faith mixed with everybody else’s faith creates something powerful. I would argue the same power happens in the political realm. And be assured, people notice when people of faith join together and become one. The enemy, and people that lust for power, fear groups of faith.
There is power in connectivity. Your faith is making me stronger. Your praise is helping fight my battles. Your smile brings me joy. When we come together it’s not only refueling you but it’s helping others. Don’t think “I don’t need to come”, “I’m doing fine”. Maybe you should come to help others. We all need to be around a community of faith.
I can’t tell you how many times someone has said thanks for helping me, thanks for listening. I think how many times people have helped me. How many times people helped me through a tough time. How many positive connections I’ve made because of others.
We are living in a time where almost every week there’s a terrible tragedy. School shootings, people driving cars into innocent people, viruses that are hard to contain, floods, hurricanes. By ourselves we’re strong but together we’re unstoppable. By ourselves we’ll get through the difficulty but together we’ll come out better. When we’re in unity, connected with other believers, you will see unexpected favor. You’ll see sudden turn arounds.
Notice a tree that stands alone in a field gets ravaged by the storm, but in a forest the trees protect one another. So when the wind blows it’s not blowing against one tree it’s blowing against thousands of trees. A tree in a forest has the strength of the whole forest.
When you’re planted in the house of the Lord your roots get connected to my roots and their roots, before long you have a support system that cannot be shaken. When the storms come, what would’ve normally blown you over by yourself, can not, because you’re connected to others. We’re all here to stabilize you, to steady you, to encourage you. For that storm to take you out it would have to take all of us out, and that’s not possible. When we’re all connected together we can’t be defeated, together we’re powerful. Stay connected and know together in unity we are the majority, and united we can’t be defeated.
Happy Saturday!
J.Goodrich
AMEN!
This is excellent, James. You have expressed my feelings with words I couldn’t articulate. Would you mind if I share this? My Bible Study group is starting a new season and I would like to use this as an introduction.
Please share Sondy!
Thank you🙏
Thank You Sandy!!
Great idea! Mine is also starting up. 😊
BSF? Starting next Tuesday! I’m excited!😊
Kudos James! I also believed if we stood together we could have overcome the COVID mandate nonsense imposed on us by employers. If we all said NO and stood firm they wouldn’t have been able to force people to take the jab.
Love your post James!!! I hope it wasn’t written by Claude😭please confirm! My concern with AI is how will we be able to have confidence in what we read or see???
Hi Mary I don’t even know who or what Claude is, so rest knowing I’m mostly computer illiterate 🙄.
You may be computer illiterate(wise), but your posts are brilliant and appreciated ❤️
Thank You again Mary, you’re much too kind!
Well, legacy media and news or AI, 50/50! At least AI doesn't smirk if you don't believe it:):)
Thank you for that encouragement. Living in an area totally unfamiliar to me, I'm reluctant to continue searching for a Biblically-based body of believers and finding concerts. To encourage others is faith. Thank you for the reminder.
Keep searching, ValerieKay, and I will pray with you for the Lord to guide you! My husband and I moved to the country about 6 years ago, away from the city where we had lived for almost 30 years. It was so hard to leave my church, but God led me to another one with excellent pastors who preach the WORD faithfully and a congregation of wonderful young people. I am the second oldest person there, most of them are young enough to be my kids or even grandkids. We have no children and very little family, so these dear brothers and sisters are my family. God is faithful and so merciful and gracious.
This applies in the secular world as well. United we stand, divided we fall.
Viruses that are hard to contain? Only the kind engineered in a lab. Maybe. Viruses are like the letters life uses to tell and record the story. What is hard to contain are the minds of ignorant and powerful men who lust for control and enjoy the suffering they create.
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I see truth in what you’re saying, but I also have problems with it. The people who built the Tower of Babel worked together and were strong. We must be careful that our faith is placed not in our own power and ability when united, but in the God who gave us life. He is the strong tower, the Almighty One. We dare not claim victory in and of ourselves. It belongs to Him.
Thank you James! It’s so true that we can feel fulfilled and live with purpose when we get out of ourselves and help others. Advice I should heed, myself! 😂😊
Amen 🙏
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Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with lovingkindness;
Break up your fallow ground,
Indeed, it is time to seek Yahweh
Until He comes and rains righteousness on you.
— Hosea 10:12 LSB
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I also prayed on my morning walk, that He will let His justice roll down like water upon the guilty who refuse to repent!
Mel Gibson movie of the Resurrected release in May. Here is his interview. No mention of Yahweh here.
https://youtu.be/J9nKeJXW25k?is=-s0uPw_l73p44ioE
Bard You are being disingenuous. I watched the interview from your link.
I know you were focusing on the legal aspect, but I'm considering how many journalists and media pundits are falling into the AI trap. Are their "sources familiar to the matter" just a sympathetic ChatGPT write up that parroted the journalists opinion?
My husband and I were watching a movie called The Old Man the other night. It has 2 seasons. Then it was cancelled. The final episode has a scene where the actors are speaking in Russian and we didn’t have subtitles. So I asked chatGPT what they were talking about. It summarized the scene accurately right up until it told us the villain let the prisoner go. Immediately, we both said - that’s not what happened. So I challenged chatGPT with the actual events. chatGPT actually came back and apologized for making the whole ending part of that scene up!!!! Then it told of the real ending and apologized and admitted it needed to get its facts straight before giving its opinion of what happened.
We were both shook. WTF.
As a tax preparer I use chatGPT for tax rules and questions - I find more often than not -IT GIVES THE WRONG ANSWER.
I do not trust AI. Period. Full stop.
Wrong answers on tax issues? Like the IRS? :)
Wrong answers about certain filings in particular states and which forms are needed. Who is required to file in certain situations. Stuff like that.
Which is why I pay someone like you to do my taxes. I’ve never trusted any of the software. Btw, I’m a software engineer 😂
What is concerning about that anecdote is that the IRS agents are probably using AI too!
I had a similar experience. I asked chatGPT what a particular phrase in a sentence written in 1873 in a book I was reading was referring to. chatGPT replied that the author did not write that sentence. I shot back, “Wrong answer, try again.” chatGPT then came back and apologized, said I was right, and then explained what the phrase was referring to.
At least when the lazy, lying AI is caught screwing up, it apologizes. That's something the average politician will not do.
😂 hahahaha. True!
Or judge
I've gotten wrong answers from AI. When I challenged it and cited a source, it backed down and apologized. I thought, "But what if I didn't know it was wrong?" I'll bet that happens a lot.
I really liked that show, but have not watched season 2. What streaming service did you see it on?
excellent point!
Yes! "unnamed source" you mean Al?? Just call him AL.
Building the Perfect Beast
It's so grossly obvious too when they are AI produced!
If Congress won’t eliminate the D.C. District Courts and move all federal cases to somewhere sane (I propose the Fifth Circuit itself), Then replacing the D.C. Circuit with Grok would be a vast improvement. Grok certainly hallucinates far less than “Judge” Boasberg.
Best comment of the day!
I don't fear AI plotting to destroy us.
I fear AI rotting our brains first.
Our brains and our very souls.
Ruth, Not my soul. I have surrendered myself to Jesus. He is in control.
So glad to hear that, and for the many who have, I rejoice.
For others who have not......
So, an author uses a few clever prompts and has an AI write his post. Then dozens of bots post comments, and then reply to each other’s comments. Why would any human want to waste time wading into that mindless morass - but what if he didn’t know?
Hmmm ... you may have just described the future of Substack.
Bingo.
Exactly
They gave him a 'hard time' but they didn't punish him.
They let him go.
He should have gone to jail for fraud and been struck from practicing law for the rest of his life.
Lawyers always give lawyers a pass - no matter how bad the crime.
He should have had to refund at least 2x his fee to the defendant and been punished enough to never attempt it again.
I love AI. It is amazingly useful. But I also hear the warnings from dissident insiders that it is a pandora's box, or perhaps better put a Tower of Babylon.
Rather than argue whether or not an "AI-pocalypse" is on the horizon, I recommend that people do this:
1. Get out of the computerized money systems. It's tougher than it sounds.
2. Ammo is a good investment. It's like money - denominated and everything.
3. Achieve physical fitness. The weak will not fare well.
4. Have a plan for the collapse of electronic civilization. Ham radio skills will be popular.
And if the doomers are wrong, you became a decoupled fit prepper with a new hobby.
Someone asked me a while back if I had plans for the fall, and it took me a moment or two to realize she was referring to Autumn, not the collapse of civilization.
Let's hope we get to enjoy Autumn before the fall!
😂 best comment of the day !!!! lol
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Those memes are as predictable as pumpkin spice every year, and they always make me smile. 😄
Exactly. If you're right about the World, you'll be in a better place than most. If you're wrong, you are STILL in a better place than most!
I like how you think
In economic terms, it's known as "low time preference", or valuing the future enough to invest in it today. Save. Invest. Build. Plan.
It works for everything.
Learn how to make a bow and arrow and hunt with it.
Learn how to forage
Learn how to make a fire with no smoke
Every book I’ve read about what happens after societal collapse ends up with the hoarders running for their lives a few weeks/months into it.
“1. Get out of the computerized money systems. It's tougher than it sounds.“
But Trump is pushing digital dollars and tokens!😲
Let’s get serious…. We are nearly all eyeball deep in digital. I haven’t seen anything except direct deposit for many, many years. I have to make a special effort to get/ have cash.
Remember the truckers in Canada not that long ago…. Boom…. Canada and the US knew who was sending support money. We have already been controlled
True, but Trump is making it worse and that’s not MAGA.
Here's an idea that won't fix everything but might be a start. Require judges, at least, to disclose the prompts they use when they query AI in formulating a ruling. I can understand not demanding that of individual lawyers since their jobs are to act as advocates for clients, not as neutral observers. But judges' rulings should be appealable based on the biases they create in the AI.
Socrates wasn't wrong. Most people nowadays have the memory of a goldfish. I read an article back in the early days of Google which said that Google was literally rewiring our brains. We've grown so accustomed to having information at out fingertips that we no longer bother remembering things. Despite my efforts, I can attest to the truth of that.
And I no longer have the encyclopedia collection that my dad gave me for college that I used to prop up 2" x 6' boards to form a bookshelf. I actually miss encyclopedias--the 'google' of my day.
Growing up (70's and 80's), we had a set of World Book encylopedias and another one geared for children (for get the name, also by World Book). I used to peruse them for hours, going from one topic to another. "Oh, that's interesting...Oh, what's this...I have to read more on that..."
I loved reading encyclopedias. Try to find some dated before 1959. It’s very hard.
Same. Childcraft - The How and Why Library. I Googled it, and read the Ai overview from Gemini. 😁
I still have mine. When I need an 80's take on something, I look it up.
For the first time, I am sorry we never bought an Encyclopedia set in the last Big push to sell them prior to the internet take over! I have seen some sets at second hand book stores but can't convince my husband 😅
Buy one before Our Betters command that they all be shredded.
A few years back (15+), the county library had their big annual "sale", getting rid of old stuff, and I got a complete set of Durant's "The Story of Civilization", 11 volumes.
And with a book you can browse and often see things you were not looking for. The problem with AI is it has tunnel vision, only responding to a query.
Yes, Curtis. But it's given so many more things to remember!
I have to do a lot of research and I write many more things down these days.
Shocked the NM Supremes didn’t give the guy a medal and promotion. They are a horrid, evil bunch who stymied the 1st amendment rights of citizens during COVID. The governor used the bench as her personal cudgel.
NM is the most backward State out of all 50. Makes Old Mexico look modern and honest.
“…not the crunchiest taco 🌮 in the street cart” - 😂 classic.
I’m so glad I retired from the legal profession @ the end of 2025. I would NOT want to be dealing w/ the AI crap as described here.
I retired in 2015. It was a good choice. I would be obsolete now, since my job was research and writing.
"As of this month, September 2026, every legal database service that law offices and courts rely on —Westlaw, LexisNexis, and all their smaller competitors— offers their own built-in AI bots that find cases and draft briefs."
Which is why leftists will deny all proof, all news reports, that the country is healing.
2nd!
Fourth!
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If you sort the comments by oldest first, you come in 3rd! Welcome to the podium!
Here's something interesting from Ed Dowd concerning the panic mongering around AI:
"Fear is how you grow the state when you cannot grow the economy.
…it is becoming more expensive to fund the buildout and investors are questioning the ultimate return on investment. A safety panic that ends in a licensing cartel is the most elegant refinancing I have seen in a long time for both the labs and the bureaucracy that will charge rent on the panic. You do not have to prove the models will kill us. You only have to make Congress and the public feel that they might. Fear is cheaper than a profitable product, and it is cheaper than a balanced budget.
Could Coxon be sincere? Sure… people leave jobs and people get scared… sincerity and utility are not opposites. The most effective operations use a real person with real anxiety and then put a megaphone, a Journal reporter, and a legislative calendar underneath him.
I do not know exactly how accurate these AI fears might be but I do know what a coordinated narrative looks like…"
From this substack:
https://dearchurchleaders.substack.com/p/psyops
🎯🎯🎯 A man worth listening to.