agentic_lawyer

If lies are our future, we have the tools necessary to deal with them. Frankly, this question was answered over a century ago by Dostoyevsky in Crime and Punishment, and every experienced criminal lawyer, prosecutor, and judge I've met already understood this very basic fact to be true: even lies point to the truth.

What is unacceptable, and what I've used my entire life as a deliberate strategy to obfuscate personal affairs, deflect unpleasant conversations, and deal with fools I come across, is to mix of a small amount of truth within a complex web of lies and misdirection.

This approach deals with two main challenges of lying effectively: lying in a consistent way and resisting the urge to be caught out in the lie. The truth is an abyss, and it frequently finds its most trenchant opponents flinging themselves willingly into it.

The most important, revealing truths can be disclosed without any risk of being discovered, hiding in plain sight. The philosophers knew this and applied these lessons judiciously since the times of Plato. Sometimes speaking the truth is dangerous.

I sometimes wish LLMs displayed that cautious refrain when discussing difficult matters. In my estimation, AGI will not have been reached until the models can produce works as mischievous as Plato, Averroes, Rousseau, or Derrida.

We are a long way from that. The vanilla brand of lies put out today by LLMs are barely worth mentioning, even if troublesome.

It's when the lies mask a deeper and profound truth that we'll know the game is up.

The thing is that there already is a very good self-hosted option for sync - Livesync. I won't say it's not eccentric and confusing (it is!) but once you get it to work, it actually works extremely well and is lightning fast too. I use syncthing as well for backups but livesync has the obvious advantage of working natively inside Obsidian.

I'm so done with subscriptions for cloud based solutions and between livesync and syncthing, you've got a very robust set of options to use.

iCloud sync actually messed up every file I opened due to the lag between remote copy and local edits. iCloud would delete the last few edits whether I was in the file or after closing the file. Sometimes I would be typing something and I'd watch it delete what I just typed. It was a complete disaster.

From the man who founded Worldcoin and built a grandiose vision of having the biometrics of every human in the developing world saved on his own corporate database: America - you're next.