Dan Epps

Yeah, I tried to get Claude to analyze Procurium to tell me. who wrote it, and it refused. It seemed to violate its ethical principles. Yeah, I really don't know why. He said it would be improper for it to speculate. I'm sure there's a way I could have kind of negotiated with it to trick it into doing that, but I just, I don't have the time. I got to try this. I'll try this and we'll update it.

I'm sure someone can get one of the AIs to do that. Maybe – is it DeepSeek, the new Chinese AI that just got released that's screwing up the US stock market? Maybe it can do that. Or maybe we can get Adam Yudkowsky. Supreme Court litigator and sub-stacker who we've mentioned a few times who's often sub-stacking. Is that a verb? About the use of generative AI in Supreme Court. His view is that –

I'm sure someone can get one of the AIs to do that. Maybe – is it DeepSeek, the new Chinese AI that just got released that's screwing up the US stock market? Maybe it can do that. Or maybe we can get Adam Yudkowsky. Supreme Court litigator and sub-stacker who we've mentioned a few times who's often sub-stacking. Is that a verb? About the use of generative AI in Supreme Court. His view is that –

I think we should get rid of the justices and just have Claude write the opinions.

I think we should get rid of the justices and just have Claude write the opinions.

Did they test whether there was any kind of liberal or conservative skew to the output of the AI in this experiment?

Did they test whether there was any kind of liberal or conservative skew to the output of the AI in this experiment?

They don't really – judges don't seem to want us to study them, right? They're very turf protective. Well, that's unfortunate. OK. Anything else to say about this one? Anything else to say about kind of – Shadow docket stuff, news. Obviously, there's a lot happening right now. How long has the Trump administration been in place?

They don't really – judges don't seem to want us to study them, right? They're very turf protective. Well, that's unfortunate. OK. Anything else to say about this one? Anything else to say about kind of – Shadow docket stuff, news. Obviously, there's a lot happening right now. How long has the Trump administration been in place?

Is that going to destroy universities possibly? It depends on how long it lasts. Is our – Is our podcast funded by grants from the federal government in any way? Okay. That's relief. We don't have to shut off the podcast.

Is that going to destroy universities possibly? It depends on how long it lasts. Is our – Is our podcast funded by grants from the federal government in any way? Okay. That's relief. We don't have to shut off the podcast.

I'll let you know. Well, we can just switch to a kind of lower tech format. We'll just record on iPhones and we won't edit. What I've always wanted.

I'll let you know. Well, we can just switch to a kind of lower tech format. We'll just record on iPhones and we won't edit. What I've always wanted.

So what's your over-under on the date that that reaches the Supreme Court?

So what's your over-under on the date that that reaches the Supreme Court?

That's quite soon. That's less than a month. Okay. Fairly. All right. Well, I'm not going to – I'm not betting you're doing it this time. Yeah. I'm not going to take either side of that bet. I'm mostly just curious.

That's quite soon. That's less than a month. Okay. Fairly. All right. Well, I'm not going to – I'm not betting you're doing it this time. Yeah. I'm not going to take either side of that bet. I'm mostly just curious.

But if it goes on that timeline, could you imagine a scenario where the court plucks this one from the shadow docket, sets it for argument in April and actually decides this constitutional question this term? Is that crazy to imagine that happening? Yeah.

But if it goes on that timeline, could you imagine a scenario where the court plucks this one from the shadow docket, sets it for argument in April and actually decides this constitutional question this term? Is that crazy to imagine that happening? Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe there wouldn't be the urgency to do it this term in the same way that there was with, say, the TikTok case where they really needed to be resolved before the law went into effect.