Re:The Price of a Harvard Lawyer
by cxr on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:56AM
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This seems remarkably close to those instances where someone describes a problem and then a respondent just repeats the problem back as if to frame it as an argument when it's really just an empty response. Viz:
> [We only] ensure that the system operates according to the specification
Re:The Price of a Harvard Lawyer
by akomtu on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:04PM
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Another way to look at this is the "goodness conservation" law: if you enable some lawyers to be agents of good, you'll also enable some lawyers to be agents of evil; you can't empower just one side. The alternative is when everyone is neutral.
> [We only] ensure that the system operates according to the specification
Right. That's the substance of the complaint.