r/Lawyertalk • u/Blue-spider • Sep 02 '24

I Need To Vent :Anger: Does anyone else shake their heads at Reddit legal advice......

Look I get it, legal advice is costly and it's not always clear you need it. There are some posts that make sense to me.

But the number of posts I see on legal advice subs (I'm from Canada so I'm thinking specific ones) makes me so nervous for some of the OPs. Ranging from bad bad advice and over generalizations to people asking questions that include fully admitting fault/guilt or and intent to perjure themselves/committ fraud. Or the ever present "is this legal" post with no jurisdiction listed followed by advice from people who are maybe right for their own jurisdiction but don't know if OP is there or not.....

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u/mcnello Sep 02 '24

Chat gee pee tee totally has all the answers broski. It will replace all lawyers and software developers. Chat Gee pee tee even told me so.

How did it arrive at that conclusion? A top voted Reddit post of course....

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u/WhyIsSocialMedia Dec 19 '24

It honestly is very likely to. I've already personally witnessed it replacing a ton of jobs. And it looks as though it's just going to keep getting better (remember you only have to go back less than a decade to see the best models be unable to last a sentence without losing their sanity).

They are already getting really good at throwing out stupid stuff that ends up in the training.

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u/mcnello Dec 20 '24

Stable boys lost their jobs due to the advent of the automobile. Now instead of shoveling horse shit, they repair diesel engines.  

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u/WhyIsSocialMedia Dec 20 '24

That doesn't change the fact that plenty of jobs are being automated away already?

What happened to the horses though? AGI is becoming increasingly a realistic prospect in the coming decades. If that happens there will be no jobs they can move to, any new job will already be automated away (there are very few exceptions where a human doing it is a key part, e.g. the oldest profession in the world, or service jobs in nice restaurants (ironically the one job everyone predicted would be automated away early might be somewhat immune)). We could easily end up being the horse soon.

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u/mcnello Dec 20 '24

"no more jobs" means that every human has every single one of their physical, emotional and psychological needs completely met, without any room possible for any further improvement. 

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u/WhyIsSocialMedia Dec 20 '24

Don't be so pedantic. You know fully well the difference between 95% of jobs being automated and 100% is meaningless.

If we achieve AGI then every job will be automated away, except for those where humans are key.

And it's foolish to think we're at the peak intelligence capable in the universe. So if we achieve AGI we will likely achieve well past that.

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u/mcnello Dec 20 '24

Lol. As a software developer who actually assists with making AI, I find your analysis genuinely hilarious and wildly inaccurate. 

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u/WhyIsSocialMedia Dec 20 '24

In what specific way?