Ex–Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time in the era of AI

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Anonymous wrote:You weenies should read the article. The guy isn't saying that doctors and lawyers and scientists are obsolete. He's saying that spending half a million dollars and 3 years to memorize a ton of information already in books is a waste of money and time.

Law school involves almost no memorization, so that's another great example of AI guys thinking they understand jobs they don't do and education they didn't get. I hate the phrase "think like a lawyer" but it's an accurate description of what you learn in law school - skills not information.

There’s a ton of memorization in law school and “thinking like a lawyer” is a cheap marketing gimmick to entice 23 year olds at career crossroads to pay 150k+ to listen to smelly boomers talk about their activism in college while the Nixon got impeached. It should be an undergrad major (and it’d be an easy one), no one has to go to grad school to work at Point72 or another megafund, which requires way more intellectual firepower and training than anything in law.

All the exams in law school are open book and open notes? I literally never had a closed book exam at my T14 law school.

Those hundred page outlines of black letter law are for bad students. The top 10% have it memorized and regurgitate for the essays. There’s almost no thought involved in law school exams.

Now there's a take.

If you were a decent student in HS and undergrad then you have a good career you wouldn’t leave for law school. Law attracts people who couldn’t hack it in the real world so they redline until their eyes bleed post grad.

And make millions of dollars a year? Doesn't sound so bad

You make more in PE and IB and MBB, don’t have to go back for an advanced liberal arts degree, have more interesting responsibilities, and bïtçh slap bankers to work all weekend while you PJ to st Barts. High finance>big law every day

My friends in IB worked a lot more hours than I did in Big Law. When I was billing 2400 they were probably pushing 2800.

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Anonymous wrote:You weenies should read the article. The guy isn't saying that doctors and lawyers and scientists are obsolete. He's saying that spending half a million dollars and 3 years to memorize a ton of information already in books is a waste of money and time.

Law school involves almost no memorization, so that's another great example of AI guys thinking they understand jobs they don't do and education they didn't get. I hate the phrase "think like a lawyer" but it's an accurate description of what you learn in law school - skills not information.

There’s a ton of memorization in law school and “thinking like a lawyer” is a cheap marketing gimmick to entice 23 year olds at career crossroads to pay 150k+ to listen to smelly boomers talk about their activism in college while the Nixon got impeached. It should be an undergrad major (and it’d be an easy one), no one has to go to grad school to work at Point72 or another megafund, which requires way more intellectual firepower and training than anything in law.

All the exams in law school are open book and open notes? I literally never had a closed book exam at my T14 law school.

Those hundred page outlines of black letter law are for bad students. The top 10% have it memorized and regurgitate for the essays. There’s almost no thought involved in law school exams.

Now there's a take.

If you were a decent student in HS and undergrad then you have a good career you wouldn’t leave for law school. Law attracts people who couldn’t hack it in the real world so they redline until their eyes bleed post grad.

And make millions of dollars a year? Doesn't sound so bad

You make more in PE and IB and MBB, don’t have to go back for an advanced liberal arts degree, have more interesting responsibilities, and bïtçh slap bankers to work all weekend while you PJ to st Barts. High finance>big law every day

My friends in IB worked a lot more hours than I did in Big Law. When I was billing 2400 they were probably pushing 2800.

They worked more as analysts, which is a 2-3 year period, and then a comparable amount as associates, which you move past in your late 20s. The workload declines dramatically as you move up (or pursue lucrative exits with more interesting responsibilities than in-house counsel) in finance, whereas in law it does not relent, even as an equity partner.