The steelman is “We’re going to trade certainty in not having Oops Can’t Find That Email What Could Possibly Have Happened for certainty in Of Course We Won’t Have A Six Year Old Email.”
@patio11
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Trustee Execution: LLM vs Bash Scripts in Trust Law
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And whether that program is an LLM fine tuned on your wishes or a 100 line bash script is irrelevant from the purposes of trust law. The trustee, a person or company, is diligently executing upon your (human) wishes.
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Legal Trust Framework for Autonomous AI Program Execution
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I think “an AI version of oneself” Is quite beyond our state of the art but you could certainly create a trust which told a trustee “Execute the following computer program, updating the version of it you use at your discretion, with the following inputs, then ~do the output.”
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Smart Contracts for Trust Documents and Charitable Transfers
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I’m using smart contract in a humorous and non-standard function to describe a trust document. You can insert a paragraph of model language, or any other paragraph of English, into a trust document to send value to (wlog) a Catholic parish or their successor institution(s).
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Separation of Concerns in Expense Management Systems
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In form that doesn’t look like using Concur or the Excel report this salaryman burned a hundred hours of his life on over the years (physically printed then physically stamped) but in function that is separation of concerns, written persistent record, contemporaneously maintained
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FTX Scandal: Startup Story or Unique Crisis?
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More broadly, I think one interesting lens on the FTX affair is the extent to which it is every startup story ever and the extent to which it really, really is not. Takes a rare combination of experiences to let someone say WTF at only the correct parts of the story.
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Disappearing Messages Impact on Data Preservation and Documentation
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“Does disappearing messages as a norm change this?” Not that much? Partly because the interesting bit is rarely in SMS-length utterances but rather in spreadsheets and project plans.
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Corporate Data Retention Policies and Historical Record Preservation
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Unfortunately we won’t have nearly as good historical records of contemporaneous non-crackups because firms that survive have e.g. lawyers who will carefully institute data retention policies, IT teams and contracts that tightly limit record keeping to blessed devices, etc.
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Modern Enterprise Crises Revealed Through Internal Documentation
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I don’t know what to say which is useful except “What a document.” The nature of the modern enterprise means we’ll see crackups, almost uniquely, through the internal lens on them, recorded in substantial fidelity in substantially real time.
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Unexpected Cyberpunk Vibes in AI Development
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(This all feels very unexpectedly cyberpunk doesn’t it?)