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Lou Pignatelli

Lou Pignatelli

@lpignate

Student at law, master of literature, and zymurgy enthusiast.

Notre Dame, IN Katılım Nisan 2009
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The General
The General@GeneralMCNews·
BREAKING: CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, says that in the future everyone’s intelligence will be a utility like electricity or water, and people will buy it from us on a meter.
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Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@BitGrateful It depends what you mean by AI tools. In house? Outsourced/turnkey service? Also possible they find savings on contracting/managing necessary non-lawyer time at lower rate, increased value. Further, time is money so time decreases req’d could be made up at increased hourly rates.
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Lawyered
Lawyered@BitGrateful·
Will someone please explain to me how law firms bill hourly AND use AI tools? Please tell me they aren't ball parking it based on how long it used to take because this is exactly what I'd expect from them.
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Lou Pignatelli
Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@ryanmckeen Supporting your point: I once heard an AmLaw 100 firm’s CIO firm proudly ask a vanguard of legal tech & licensed lawyer how may lawyers it took to operate a national practice group. Joke was on the room, as he claimed it was effectively maintained by two paralegals. Year? 2015-6.
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Ryan McKeen
Ryan McKeen@ryanmckeen·
I think you are going to see a firm of 5 lawyers do a 100 million in revenue within the next 5 years. Maybe multiple firms.
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Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@ryanmckeen Possible? Yes. Likely? Hmm. Requires full time/skill set of 1/5 be adept/capable/current in/synthesizing of informatics systems, legal processes to tailor, transubstantiate & maintain requisite systems/processes for practitioners. Turnkey won’t do. Luck helps.
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Tenobrus
Tenobrus@tenobrus·
i wish i felt i could trust sam altman. unfortunately as of now, reading posts like feels like incredibly thinly veiled manipulation and frame control, little "admissions" and "i would go to jail for this" would love if any current OAI employees could explain their trust.
Sam Altman@sama

Here is re-post of an internal post: We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear. 1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else: "• Consistent with applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978, the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals. • For the avoidance of doubt, the Department understands this limitation to prohibit deliberate tracking, surveillance, or monitoring of U.S. persons or nationals, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information." It’s critical to protect the civil liberties of Americans, and there was so much focus on this, that we wanted to make this point especially clear, including around commercially acquired information. Just like everything we do with iterative deployment, we will continue to learn and refine as we go. I think this is an important change; our team and the DoW team did a great job working on it. 2. The Department also affirmed that our services will not be used by Department of War intelligence agencies (for example, the NSA). Any services to those agencies would require a follow-on modification to our contract. 3. For extreme clarity: we want to work through democratic processes. It should be the government making the key decisions about society. We want to have a voice, and a seat at the table where we can share our expertise, and to fight for principles of liberty. But we are clear on how the system works (because a lot of people have asked, if I received what I believed was an unconstitutional order, of course I would rather go to jail than follow it). But 4. There are many things the technology just isn’t ready for, and many areas we don’t yet understand the tradeoffs required for safety. We will work through these, slowly, with the DoW, with technical safeguards and other methods. 5. One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday. The issues are super complex, and demand clear communication. We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy. Good learning experience for me as we face higher-stakes decisions in the future. In my conversations over the weekend, I reiterated that Anthropic should not be designated as a SCR, and that we hope the DoW offers them the same terms we’ve agreed to. We will host an All Hands tomorrow morning to answer more questions.

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Lou Pignatelli
Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@KlonnyPin_Gosch Remember when Dr. Oz talked about a price reduction from 100 to less than 10 being incalculable? Or the variance in square feet for a building between reality and tax documents? Those kind of people made this decision, I suspect.
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Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@sama @steipete What’s the enforcement mechanism if you determine an order is unconstitutional — your personal judgment? What specific technical safeguards are in place today versus promised for later? Have you offered the language to the ACLU or EFF to review in anticipation of implementation?
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Sam Altman
Sam Altman@sama·
Here is re-post of an internal post: We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear. 1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else: "• Consistent with applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978, the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals. • For the avoidance of doubt, the Department understands this limitation to prohibit deliberate tracking, surveillance, or monitoring of U.S. persons or nationals, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information." It’s critical to protect the civil liberties of Americans, and there was so much focus on this, that we wanted to make this point especially clear, including around commercially acquired information. Just like everything we do with iterative deployment, we will continue to learn and refine as we go. I think this is an important change; our team and the DoW team did a great job working on it. 2. The Department also affirmed that our services will not be used by Department of War intelligence agencies (for example, the NSA). Any services to those agencies would require a follow-on modification to our contract. 3. For extreme clarity: we want to work through democratic processes. It should be the government making the key decisions about society. We want to have a voice, and a seat at the table where we can share our expertise, and to fight for principles of liberty. But we are clear on how the system works (because a lot of people have asked, if I received what I believed was an unconstitutional order, of course I would rather go to jail than follow it). But 4. There are many things the technology just isn’t ready for, and many areas we don’t yet understand the tradeoffs required for safety. We will work through these, slowly, with the DoW, with technical safeguards and other methods. 5. One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday. The issues are super complex, and demand clear communication. We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy. Good learning experience for me as we face higher-stakes decisions in the future. In my conversations over the weekend, I reiterated that Anthropic should not be designated as a SCR, and that we hope the DoW offers them the same terms we’ve agreed to. We will host an All Hands tomorrow morning to answer more questions.
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Lou Pignatelli
Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@sama @steipete Does “intentionally” cover incidental collection through bulk analysis? If it only prohibits what’s already illegal, what does it actually add? Why is NSA use gated by a “modification” instead of flatly prohibited? Who approves follow-on modification and is Congress involved?
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Lou Pignatelli
Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@am_yers Whether/when this happens for lawyers isn’t about evolved AI capability/features; rather, it’s about guild/regulatory/legal control. Also, this brings questions of change in practice of law regardless where, with reliable AI, judgment replaces lesser & time consuming legal work.
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Lou Pignatelli
Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@BulwarkOnline Gingrich’s GOP consulted Luntz on framing, labeling, coding & rule setting among coms/rhetorical strategy. It worked. Obama & Clinton aside, Dems have longtime failed to persuade/narrate/frame. Rep. Khanna’s use of these techniques adeptly is inspiring. Is this changing?
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The Bulwark
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline·
Rep. Khanna: “I was pleased to see Congresswoman Nancy Mace today calling for Howard Lutnick to come before our committee. I believe we will have the votes to subpoena him.”
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Ejaaz
Ejaaz@cryptopunk7213·
FUCK yeah anthropic’s still cooking for those who don’t know: - the claude Max subscription is probably the best fckin value for money ai subscription you can get. you can code up a ton of shit and not be rate limited on tokens. - agent sdk is what a lot of people use to spin up openclaw agents. and they love using claude. thank god - wouldn’t surprise me if these two features alone are responsible for Anthropic’s $14B revenue run rate
Thariq@trq212

Apologies, this was a docs clean up we rolled out that’s caused some confusion. Nothing is changing about how you can use the Agent SDK and MAX subscriptions!

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Lou Pignatelli
Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@LoganR2WH Isn’t it Foucault who argued by way of the repressive hypothesis that a prohibition against something often has the outcome of realizing its opposite?
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Logan Phillips
Logan Phillips@LoganR2WH·
James Talarico is having quite a moment in Texas after the Colbert interview - and according to Google Trends, Texans are now searching his name at a very high rate just in time for early voting.
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Lou Pignatelli
Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@ChrisMartzWX If only social media startups and a 250 year old government with wholly divergent interests obligations were an appropriate analog then maybe this comment would have some actual critical value.
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Chris Martz
Chris Martz@ChrisMartzWX·
Remember when Elon Musk acquired Twitter, then immediately fired 80% of the workforce, and how the app functions fine without them? I imagine the same thing would apply to the federal government.
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Lou Pignatelli
Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@highbrow_nobrow @atrupar Americans should be raised to question and talk openly with other Americans about all aspects of American life. Anything less and we’re soviets by another moniker.
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The Intellectualist
The Intellectualist@highbrow_nobrow·
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."@atrupar (2025)
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Thomas Massie
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie·
@IngrahamAngle I’m not running against Trump. We serve in different branches of the government. Our branch makes laws, his branch carries out the laws we make.
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Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham@IngrahamAngle·
Who represents Kentuckians’ better? President Trump or Rep. Thomas Massie?
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Brian Allen
Brian Allen@allenanalysis·
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Lawmakers say Trump’s personal lawyers — Bondi, Blanche, and Patel — withheld or redacted an estimated 95% of references to Donald Trump in the Epstein files — roughly 950,000 of 1M+ mentions, per staff calculations. If accurate, this is one of the largest political cover-ups ever carried out against the public.
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Lou Pignatelli
Lou Pignatelli@lpignate·
@TheLaurenChen Why didn’t I think of that? I suppose it’s because my premium increased 30% this winter, attributable to expired subsidies. Now I’m not worried at all about a huge increase relative to my earning power: how long will it take these kind, corporate types to give me a 15% discount?
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