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Nov 14, 2019 14 tweets 5 min read Read on X
HR departments highly scientific algorithms may be (very accurately and systematically) selecting for lemons, discarding peaches

Perfect example of kakonomy in many levels: HR, executives, candidates, managers,… take any two
If you make questions for a job interview without due attention, you may ask something different from what you think you are asking, and you will effectively filter out people that know better than you.

Please do, otherwise meetings will be very frustrating later on.
If you want to do new things, you have to be your own boss

Work 9 to 5 on boring repetitive tasks to pay the bills, then be your own boss to grow

HR depts will rarely risk putting you on something new, they will tell you to do what you have already done
How to find a job:

1. Do the job you want to do
2. Find a way to monetize it
3. Forget about finding another job for a worse boss, you already created a job with the best possible boss: yourself
Doing what has been done before or what someone else tells you to do lacks interest. Do something nobody has done before. Initially, you may not know how to do it, just figure it out.

This is not a radical or genius idea, it is just the normal approach. Deal with it, and make the most of it ASAP. Life is short
Recruiting (in some cases HR) wins when hiring, doesn't lose by turnover

Employees may find greater benefits in moving rather than staying

Incentives are on increasing the speed of replacement of employees. Great metrics, and poor quality

The "can do attitude" that HR wants is just coffee overdose

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Choose leaders the opposite of the current bias towards excess of self-confidence. It ends up ruining your organizations due to alienation of your workers and poor decision making, directly connected to Dunning-Kruger, correlated with gender biases.
Maybe job interviews should try to select for more grumpy people

getpocket.com/explore/item/w…
"we are searching for people with experience in industry and a strong publication track"

i.e.

"We are searching for people that were able to ignore their manager's requests to make their CV look better and have meetings with people out of their org"

If 1% of what people write in their CVs were true, we would be living in an incredible age of wonders

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Dec 10, 2022
GPT may explain references, requiring a bit more reading and a lot less background to understand the expansion of reference-rich very concise text

I tried, the result follows, seems better than expected. I will certainly use it again
1. Clever Hans was a horse that was able to perform mathematical calculations and other impressive tasks, which initially appeared to be a remarkable example of animal intelligence.
However, it was later discovered that the horse was not actually doing the calculations himself, but was instead picking up on subtle cues from the audience and trainer to determine the correct answer.
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Both web3 and the metaverse jeopardize untapping the relevance of crypto: “X as code”:
$BTC: money
$ETH: contracts

Software is eating the world. Eating the web or VR only delays the unavoidable

Relevant: create value, solve problems, do things that matter, fix what sucks,…
Web3 is a terrible choice of name too

Crypto is undoing a lot of the centralization in web 2.0*, and requires technical knowledge. Today, it should be 1.2 IMHO

* Similarly to Jamstack: less PHP, more REST & static pages. Nobody promised linear evolution…
Many people expect crypto will become easier, more polished, and gain mass adoption

It is about freedom & DIY, avoiding intermediaries & centralization, much like GNU/Linux. It's not about getting rich. In fact normally freedom comes at a cost

When mass adoption for GNU/Linux?
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Nov 30, 2021
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Producers selecting for their preferred features against the preferred features of consumers, great way to shoot yourself on the foot

The Boeing case is a “great” example

Many references in the parent thread and replies too

In a way, it is the “natural order”
Narrator: The guy that could not do maths went to be the boss of the guy that could, demanding explanations that 4 year old children could understand

Personal suggestion: practice puppetry
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Nov 18, 2021
Nothing better than education to create value in a society

Pre-apocalyptic dystopias are boring, full of BS and nonsense

Post-apocalyptic dystopias are more interesting, because there's less margin for BS and nonsense

There will always be plenty, though. It's a main feature of a "complex" brain
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Several things may be considered as "triggers" of an AI winter, e.g
—"aging" of teams
—not meeting investor expectations after diminishing returns
—whistleblowers ending the hype by exposing lies
—…

TBH: I think those are symptoms, but not the root cause
The root cause is: "running out of hype"

The biggest threat (TBT) for GPT-4 is not bad practices in OpenAI, investors disappointed with GPT-3, or Gary Marcus calling BS on GPT-3

TBT is finding something to sell not sold for GPT-3 yet

IMHO — as always
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