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I first heard this koan in high school and dismissed it as nonsense, but it makes a lot more sense now. Anyways, in most cases, this sort of thing just scales

I first heard this koan in high school and dismissed it as nonsense, but it makes a lot more sense now. Anyways, in most cases, this sort of thing just scales well. It wont do a great job in some cases, but it can do well in many, and if you're hiring tens or hundreds of thousands, thats good enough.

Smerity 10y ago
> Anyways, in most cases, this sort of thing just scales well. It wont do a great job in some cases, but it can do well in many, and if you're hiring tens or hundreds of thousands, thats good enough. That is a hugely concerning comment. The cases it is least likely do well in are cases involving minorities or existing prejudice. If we're not wary, machine learning powered filtering and scoring of resumes could feed in to all the worst of our existing biases.