What Greek Tragedy Teaches About Mediating AI Disputes
Scholarly diligence did not send me back to Aeschylus' "The Oresteia" this year. Of all things, a movie did. Christopher Nolan's recent adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey" pulled me back to the five years I studied ancient Greek as a young man, long before I had any idea I would spend my career persuading people to put down their swords, so to speak, and talk.
It is a strange privilege to reread, some 40 years later, a text that you first construed, dictionary in hand, as a teenager. The words are the same, but I am not. Where I once saw a family curse and a clever bit of Athenian civic mythology, I now see something closer to a diagnosis of my own profession: A verdict and a resolution are not always the same event, and sometimes a difficult dispute may need both.
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Scholarly diligence did not send me back to Aeschylus' "The Oresteia" this year. Of all things, a movie did. Christopher Nolan's recent adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey" pulled me back to the five years I studied ancient Greek as a young man, long before I had any idea I would spend my career persuading people to put down their swords, so to speak, and talk.
It is a strange privilege to reread, some 40 years later, a text that you first construed, dictionary in hand, as a teenager. The words are the same, but I am not. Where I once saw a family curse and a clever bit of Athenian civic mythology, I now see something closer to a diagnosis of my own profession: A verdict and a resolution are not always the same event, and sometimes a difficult dispute may need both.
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