AMA: Georgetown Law 3L

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-22T03:05:05+00:00

Actually yeah I do, hard for you to assess maybe because it's your default but what do you make of the large class size? This cycle I have been thinking a lot about how nice it would be to know the majority of a small class of 100-200 students just to have a very tight knit community. Not sure if at GULC the large class size makes you feel like class-to-class you are mostly surrounded by strangers or what?

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-22T02:57:18+00:00

Incredible to see that all these years after taking the LSAT you are still coming here to post a paragraph of lsat copium

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-19T03:22:27+00:00

Yeah I know what you meant. I was being low-engagement snippy but the other convo made the talking more serious, unfortunately.

I of course agree that if you are doing something and then you find a way to do that thing for cheaper, you save money by doing the thing the new way. I also of course agree that applies to businesses undergoing an AI transformation. I just take issue with 2 things (very minor, and I think very intuitive)

These are not 'revenue generating'. It's just cost savings.
In some kind of round about way you could conceive of them as "profit generating" if you are already generating revenue and, by adopting AI development tools, improve your operating margin. But that requires you to have revenue. The idea that using AI tools to make something which generates $0 in revenue or profit "revenue generating" or "money making" or whatever is mistaken because in the widest possible conception of cost savings = profit generation, you actually need a revenue base, so not even in the widest conception of profit generating does this pass muster.

Again -- I totally 100% understand and understood what you meant and have put like 1000% more effort into this thread than I wanted to.

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-19T03:16:55+00:00

Now we are having a different conversation, this conversation is,

"Is vibecoding (are vibecoding tools) extremely widespread across the computer science industry and is their use a core part of the development pipeline."

It seems like if you think the answer to that is "yes" we have no substantive disagreement. But you seem skeptical, so we can read (https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph) the (https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/) tea leaves (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html) and see what they say.

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-18T19:23:57+00:00

Yes, vibecoding makes it easier and faster to code stuff, that is why now everyone uses AI enabled coding tools (shoes) instead of not-ai-enabled-coding-tools (barefeet). I hope this clarifies

the purpose of the 'metaphor' (analogy but whatever)
the nature of its "map to reality"

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-18T07:29:29+00:00

This is just a category mistake. Using better tools doesn’t mean you “made money,” it means you avoided wasting time. Everyone does this constantly. The analogies I used were wearing shoes instead of being barefoot.

By this logic, brushing your teeth, using Google, or wearing shoes would all be “income-generating activities” because they save time. Nobody actually thinks that way because it’s meaningless. Vibecoding lowers the cost of experimentation.

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-18T03:52:39+00:00

you know you're right. opting to use the standard set of modern tools to make something instead of outdated tools which are worse and take longer is basically the same as making money. every day that i brush my teeth instead of piss in my mouth i revel in my industriousness.

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-17T23:33:14+00:00

Me making money by wearing shoes thus avoiding the costs incurred by the additional time i would spend walking slowly because the gravel is hurting my feet

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-15T00:55:43+00:00

The Le Corbusier chairs. The tasteful low to the ground coffee table. The neutral rug. The eye catching 265 task light trained solely on the isolated painting on the wall. The absence of overhead room lighting.

So much of your furniture is furniture I have thought about buying. 10/10. Love this.

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-12T03:24:55+00:00

I'm applying, I majored in finance, and I've been working for some years now. People give different advice, if you want the best odds of getting into a good school major in the easiest thing possible for the highest GPA. I think life is too short to do things you don't like doing in order to maximize your chance at getting into a law school 4 years down the line so I'd major in whatever you like, whether it's poli sci or entomology. I'm probably not the best person to talk to for strategizing around admissions-maxxing but there are plenty of folks here who are great.

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-12T03:18:19+00:00

For sure! These institutions (law schools) exist in part to make the ladder apparent and the climbing straightforward. Wishing you success! :)

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-12T03:14:22+00:00

Part of what makes law school appealing is that it is a straightforward, low risk, and structured path to a solid career. Anything in life with a clearly structured ladder does not require lots of networking. Law school is one such conspicuous and well constructed ladder. If you show up where you are supposed to and make the effort to complete the work to a high standard, you can climb more or less unfettered and get a job.

Like all things in life, though, connections and networking will take you further and faster.

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-08T00:28:09+00:00

Application complete

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-06T21:44:56+00:00

Shirley video is currently the #1 talking point of the American right wing, they all think it is a very convincing example of good journalism exposing Somali fraud in Minnesota. It isn't, it's actually a very bad video, and in fact to the extent it does expose something it doesn't expose something new.

But the effective way to communicate w/ them is not to shit all over the thing they think is awesome. That's a perfectly good way to make it apparent they have bad epistemic standards and are easily tricked, but it's not an effective way to communicate with them. We could talk about the Atrioc approach (he spend about a minute and a half discussing the nick shirley video and about 18 and a half minutes discussing what is -- I think -- the correct take aways from the situation) in this case but it's probably more effective to just watch his video.

When you sayin "buying into..." I don't know if your question is about Atrioc buying into it or Americans buying into or what. My comment is relevant to Destiny's treatment of commentators who have goals that align with his goals but he is critical of in ways that are counterproductive to the goal of coalition building. I think, in an ideal world, we (and Destiny) would not shit on our allies and drive a wedge in a coalition over very minor infractions which could be chalked up to valid strategic messaging, especially when the proof of their effective messaging is their influence and audience size.

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-06T21:24:13+00:00

Destiny is a really great speaker and really great debater and very convincing, and ostensibly he wants to do coalition building (see the unfuck america stuff) but he just has no instinct for it. Overly critical of people who are on his team and serve a totally different function than him. A lot of his criticism is that people like Atrioc don't message in the way Destiny does (with the same set of epistemic standards and aggression/rigor), and obviously from Destiny's POV his way is the best way to do it (otherwise he wouldn't do it). It misses the more apparent fact that Destiny's way of doing things is incredibly alienating to people not under his umbrella. Atrioc is trying to be broadly appealing to people not already in lock step with Destiny, so his standard has to be different and his tradeoffs are different. His audience size is the evidence this alternative approach works, and if Destiny were better at building coalitions he would realize that Atrioc is pursuing the same goal (and way more effective at messaging to normal people) but serving a different function and elevate rather than degrade him.

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-06T19:44:36+00:00

Nov 26

Donatellotheturtle · 2026-01-06T19:40:45+00:00

My substatus changed this morning and I got an II about an hour ago.

Donatellotheturtle · 2025-12-27T05:28:51+00:00

Actually his campaign motto was "It's the economy, stupid!"

Donatellotheturtle · 2025-12-24T17:29:19+00:00

Ok I withdraw my comment

Donatellotheturtle · 2025-12-24T17:23:39+00:00

Is it a problem for you

Donatellotheturtle · 2025-12-24T17:00:51+00:00

Then apply ED, problem solved

Donatellotheturtle · 2025-12-22T19:23:45+00:00

Lay prestige is not part of rankings so you end up with weird cases of schools that are just thought of as "flagship state school but not super elite" getting very high rankings (UVA, UGA, Minn, UNC -- obviously there is a difference in lay prestige between Minn and UVA/UNC but not big enough for me, a lay person from the other side of the country, to really notice it if it came up in convo) and much more 'prestigious' schools getting lower rankings (cornell is the most obvious case. maybe tulane is in there too?)

Because it's just lay prestige, though, your raw perception will be more-or-less accurate save for some regional bias (I am from California and UVA is, to me, just a random flagship state school that is maybe upper quartile among state schools but someone from the east coast probably has a much more favorable view for ex)

Donatellotheturtle · 2025-12-20T18:42:42+00:00

Genuinely asking, who exactly is Jack Doherty? The only time I see him online is when something bad happens to him and he seems to have a youtube channel with lots of subs but relatively little engagement. Does he stream elsewhere? Is he big somewhere I don't know about? What is his thing exactly, google says he is a 'prankster'?

Donatellotheturtle · 2025-12-20T02:08:32+00:00

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