David A. Simon
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David A. Simon
@david__simon
Associate Professor of Law, @NUSL | Co-Director, Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety https://t.co/3UVySPh10v
Boston, MA Katılım Nisan 2011
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Big news here at Carolina Law.
(Also pretty big news in the Hessick house.)
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New test. Can I write my new essay in less than 15,000 words and in under 3 weeks?
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@smmarotta one of my favorite cases i worked on as a law student. the brief cited no legal authority. Reply cited rule stating briefs must be supported by legal authority. surreply cited a case for the proposition no citation to legal authority was required.
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And yet. It is useful to read bad legal writing because identifying WHY it is bad legal writing helps you become a better legal writer.
Or perhaps that is just my cope.
Sarah Isgur@whignewtons
“I think maybe the best way to be a good writer is to continually surround yourself with good writing and to see what good writers do. I try to avoid bad writing, although that’s not altogether my choice, because I have to read all these briefs…
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@HoffProf nice thread! i see this as a bigger problem for scholarship. it has a variety of purposes, but three central ones are (1) to become an expert, (2) to demonstrate expertise, and (3) to offer an expert op based on your kwldg. AI gives the veneer of all 3 but the substance of none
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David A. Simon retweetledi
Fifth edition of my free Business Associations casebook is now live. Updated problem sets, organizational documents, AI tools & questions and added Rutledge and Whitmer v. Armistice. Also 20% fewer typos. It's free and licensed for you to cut it up, repurpose or steal.
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@gerke_sara and I have a new paper in @NEJM_AI, "Privacy Considerations of Artificial Intelligence Scribes"
ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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I am not sure academia is any worse than other professions - which often have similar problems or pressures, often far more intense. Lawyers and doctors come to mind.
chronicle.com/article/higher…
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Some people go skydiving. Me, I cut 5,000 words from my article. Thrilling
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Airlines should allow Coasian bargaining over seat recline. Passengers would state their reservation prices for not reclining / having the passenger in front of them not recline. Software would match seats to maximize total surplus and split each pair’s surplus equally.
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Michael Spence has entered the chat
wsj.com/lifestyle/care…
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David A. Simon retweetledi
My colleagues and I at HARMS filed a new citizen petition today about a device that is being used on patients but does not appear to have FDA authorization
law.northeastern.edu/amy-j-reed-col…
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@Afinetheorem @tylercowen seems like ai is already being used to avoid learning. having more ai to learn seems like maybe the wrong idea?
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Plus ça change, @tylercowen: Adam Smith literally left his university Chair to tutor a rich kid on a Grand Tour. Unbundling will perhaps be tough for universities like every form of cross-subsidization: my top colleagues could earn their univ salary in 200 hours of consulting...
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Most shocking thing is that copilot generated revenue
Amir Efrati@amir
here's where the Microsoft-OpenAI economics currently stand, incl capex
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I would really love to write (and read!) shorter articles (10K words or less) that just identify a problem, make an argument, flesh out implications, and address objections. This would mean omitting detailed background and cites to every tangentially relevant article.
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@AnthonyMKreis all these discussions are funny from someone who grew up in cook county
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The idea that any state Supreme Court race is nonpartisan is fanciful. The thing now is that Georgia is a politically competitive state, and fault lines will emerge accordingly. This is compounded by the federal judiciary’s recent decisions that have galvanized liberals. 🤷♂️
Erick Erickson@EWErickson
The Democrats are openly turning nonpartisan judicial races in Georgia into partisan races and the GOP is staying hom and handing the Democrats these races.
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