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Human-Centricity and the Limits of AI(medium.com)
2 points by gethigher 5y ago|0 comments
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: great article Tom, covers a lot of questions I've had. One I didn't see was in regards to mentors. How important would you say having a mentor was to some of your initial raises? If at all?
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: good spot! It actually line breaks on desktop view there, it must of snuck through.
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by gethigher 5y ago
> If the latter, employers should be aware they may be biasing hiring in favour rule-breakers. AD: It doesn't matter if you fund your friends to do it or you do it yourself, someone is taking the risk and so from a signal processing
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: We have clauses in place for these scenarios, Higher will act as the mediator in instances where a clear reason can't be established.
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by gethigher 5y ago
> I would only make the bet if I understood both sides AD: So this is integral to our system, those who are being asked to endorse candidates won't be doing so if they don't feel they either understand what the company is looki
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: It wouldn't be a startup without an amount of "look how good we are"!... It absolutely is the endorsement flow. People will only be willing to endorse their candidates if they are confident they can pass the companies pro
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: Thanks for your comment, if you get into the T&C's we have clauses for when a candidate applies and is let go for reasons outside of being not fit for the role, there are pro-rata returns for the endorsers in those instances.
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by gethigher 5y ago
> What stops Paul paying his friends/acquaintances to endorse him? AD: The fact that Paul is taking on all the risk, in effect Paul has made a self-endorsement via proxy... Paul can already self-endorse it's a valid signal of c
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: Interestingly... thats just a self-endorsement via a proxy, someone is still taking a risk.
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: I hear you, we've just launched and money is our first and most generalised form of staking, expect more to come.
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: It's worth pointing out that Harvard Business School just published a report[1] on what they deem as 'Hidden Workers' - one of the major factors in these workers remaining hidden is that their CV or digital profiles can&#
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: I'm very over-due on the second part to this series... On my third re-write. I promise to have it up very soon. It covers why human-centric systems are important particularly in this space.
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by gethigher 5y ago
AD: The service has been launched! However it's a manual on-boarding at the moment :)
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by gethigher 5y ago
Hello! Adrian and Paul here, we conceived of Higher almost 2 years ago now, partly inspired by a HN thread! The other part was Paul being asked to endorse a colleague he had worked with before, he did so positively, however the owners asked
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Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?(gethigher.io)
49 points by gethigher 5y ago|36 comments