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But now the meaning is different: you went from a potential interview to a guaranteed one.

by entrox 9mo ago

lovich 9mo ago
No fucking shit, I paraphrased Anthropic's comments as > do better than we have publicly admitted most of humanity can do, and we may deign to interview you If you think telling someone that after passing a test that 99.999% of humanity cannot pass, that they _may_ get an interview, you are being snarky/condescending.
- retsibsi 9mo ago
  That's not how paraphrasing works. They probably intentionally held back from guaranteeing an interview, for various reasons. One that seems obvious to me is that with the bar set at "Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch", it's plausible that someone could meet it by feeding the problem into an LLM. If a bunch of people do that, they won't want to waste time interviewing them all.
- Nevermark 9mo ago
  Or honest? You may want to consider the distribution and quantity of replies before stating that you WILL do something that might just waste more people’s time or not be practical. The classy thing to do would be responding to every qualifying submission, even if it’s just to thank everyone and let some people know the field was very competitive if an interview won’t be happening.
- YetAnotherNick 9mo ago
  So I like these public challenges, but as someone who set some public questions, ask any company who ran any public contest for their opinion. The pool is filled with scammers who either bought the solutions through sites like Chegg or sometimes even just stackoverflow.
  - lovich 9mo ago
    Ok, so they have a reason to be condescending in your mind. Does that change the fact that they are condescending?
    - lechatonnoir 8mo ago
      i think by your logic, they only thing that they do that is condescending is to say that an interview is not guaranteed. people are mentioning that they do this for a reason, which explains away that behavior, so yeah, it kinda does change the fact of whether they are being condescending.
- andruby 9mo ago
  pedantic: 0.001% of humanity is still 80K humans which might be a lot. (yes, yes, not every human will try this test)

But now the meaning is different: you went from a potential interview to a guaranteed one.

by entrox 9mo ago

But now the meaning is different: you went from a potential interview to a guaranteed one.

No fucking shit, I paraphrased Anthropic's comments as > do better than we have publicly admitted most of humanity can do, and we may deign to interview you If you think telling someone that after passing a test that 99.999% of humanity cannot pass, that they _may_ get an interview, you are being snarky/condescending.

retsibsi 9mo ago
That's not how paraphrasing works. They probably intentionally held back from guaranteeing an interview, for various reasons. One that seems obvious to me is that with the bar set at "Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch", it's plausible that someone could meet it by feeding the problem into an LLM. If a bunch of people do that, they won't want to waste time interviewing them all.
Nevermark 9mo ago
Or honest? You may want to consider the distribution and quantity of replies before stating that you WILL do something that might just waste more people’s time or not be practical. The classy thing to do would be responding to every qualifying submission, even if it’s just to thank everyone and let some people know the field was very competitive if an interview won’t be happening.
YetAnotherNick 9mo ago
So I like these public challenges, but as someone who set some public questions, ask any company who ran any public contest for their opinion. The pool is filled with scammers who either bought the solutions through sites like Chegg or sometimes even just stackoverflow.
- lovich 9mo ago
  Ok, so they have a reason to be condescending in your mind. Does that change the fact that they are condescending?
  - lechatonnoir 8mo ago
    i think by your logic, they only thing that they do that is condescending is to say that an interview is not guaranteed. people are mentioning that they do this for a reason, which explains away that behavior, so yeah, it kinda does change the fact of whether they are being condescending.
andruby 9mo ago
pedantic: 0.001% of humanity is still 80K humans which might be a lot. (yes, yes, not every human will try this test)