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Edward Bukstel's avatar

Awesome work. I think 🤔 the whole UPL argument is ridiculous considering no one is taking OpenAI and Anthropic to court

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Sateesh Nori's avatar

Great takes here! I’m reading “Abundance” too and was trying to envision a world in which there is no justice gap at all and therefore no need to desperately find solutions to it. What does an abundance of legal help and information look like? Maybe it’s AI powered chatbots? Or maybe it’s upstream assistance to “life problems?”

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Sam Harden's avatar

I love "life problems" - especially because pigeonholing everything into legal vs. non-legal is just adding confusion (and potentially regulation over who can give advice).

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Damien Riehl's avatar

Excellent piece, Sam! Another good response to Environmental Objections: Efficiency, leading to lower energy consumption. DeepSeek uses far fewer tokens. Groq is faster (and more efficient) than NVIDIA. Legally specific foundational models (e.g., KL3M) use far fewer tokens. And can run on CPUs (not GPUs). As the tech matures, we'll also increase efficiency. Which mitigates concerns about environmental impact.

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