This seems like the games and aptitude tests that some employers make you complete near the start of the process. There is a difference, currently most tests are critical thinking tests or personality quizes that may not match up to the skills you need for the given job. But the important difference is one of test design, not whether it is on the blockchain or not.
How NFTs will change hiring
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#32The thread really jumped the shark when the author shared a “glimpse of the future” and cited an example of some organization that doesn’t appear to exist, and some project the author made. This idea is so bad for so many reasons that others in the thread have already outlined.
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#33Seems like the idea has nothing to do with NFT (idea = 'employment db is good'), but the author is selling his book / course on NFTs and is making the thread into an advert for his product. That sums up everything to do with NFTs for me. The smell remains rotten and I will, again, run away and fast.
> That sums up everything to do with NFTs for me. The smell remains rotten and I will, again, run away and fast.
NFTs are just a way to represent something unique on a blockchain. The smell comes from the pixel art NFTs.
Your position on a uniswap v3 pair is represented as an NFT (no pixels associated), while v2 used ERC20 tokens (fungible)
Suppose you own a car rental. You can represent the available cars as NFTs and use a blockchain to make reservations and payments
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#34Criticisms:
1. None of this requires blockchain or NFTs and is 100% technically feasible today
2. This has all been tried before and failed to show real improvement for either candidates or companies
3. Contrary to what the thread suggests, the biggest problem on recruiting is fraud; this proposal doesn’t do anything to prevent someone else interviewing for you
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#35It's all fun and games till there is blackmarket service for faking your skills by someone else much more qualified pretends to be you in exchange of some coins.
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#36The overwhelming consensus in this thread and in the replies to that tweet is dissent on the basis of the many completely obvious holes in the author's reasoning, which I won't get into here.
What I'd like to appreciate is the uniqueness of the blockchain space in its seemingly bottomless capacity to generate these bold propositions for which blockchain is _blatantly_ ill-equipped to solve whatever problem is at hand.
This is seen virtually nowhere else in tech with such regularity: engineers are obsessed with picking the "right tool for the job," entrepreneurs are obsessed with finding "product-market fit," etc.
This would make complete sense if the sector as a whole were, to put it crudely, one big Ponzi. The type that could influence otherwise intelligent, well-meaning, technically-inclined people to make glaringly absurd claims like in the linked thread as a pretext for luring in investors.
The typical response to that explanation is to split hairs over whether NFTs, or Bitcoin, or whatever token this guy is selling (I didn't check) fits the classical definition of a Ponzi.
I say "typical" because we re-engage in this discussion anew every day here on HN -- apparently in direct proportion to the total cryptocurrency market cap, with the occasional two-or-three year relief period when retail money dries up.
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#37"- It scans the blockchain and rates your set of on chain experiences and credentials - If above a certain rating, you’re hired within 60 seconds No prejudice, no wasted time, no pain" Absolutely piss off. This is the same crowd that thinks that algorithms cannot be prejeduiced, after all "it's just maths". Why don't you advocate for a social score as well while we're at it.
Yeah this just sounds like certifications for crypto-bros. "Quests?"
We all know how fabulously certifications work for hiring people, after all.
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#38The overwhelming consensus in this thread and in the replies to that tweet is dissent on the basis of the many completely obvious holes in the author's reasoning, which I won't get into here. What I'd like to appreciate is the uniqueness of the blockchain space in its seemingly bottomless capacity to generate these bold propositions for which blockchain is _blatantly_ ill-equipped to solve whatever problem is at hand…
>What I'd like to appreciate is the uniqueness of the blockchain space in its seemingly bottomless capacity to generate these bold propositions for which blockchain is _blatantly_ ill-equipped to solve whatever problem is at hand.
>This would make complete sense if the sector as a whole were, to put it crudely, one big Ponzi.
snake oil, that is a phrase that is commonly understood as metaphorical and nobody is going to argue that "it is not matching the classical definition of snake oil so it can't be that".
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#39Seems like the idea has nothing to do with NFT (idea = 'employment db is good'), but the author is selling his book / course on NFTs and is making the thread into an advert for his product. That sums up everything to do with NFTs for me. The smell remains rotten and I will, again, run away and fast.
> That sums up everything to do with NFTs for me. The smell remains rotten and I will, again, run away and fast. NFTs are just a way to represent something unique on a blockchain. The smell comes from the pixel art NFTs. Your position on a uniswap v3 pair is represented as an NFT (no pixels associated), while v2 used ERC20 tokens (fungible) Suppose you own a car rental. You can represent the available cars as NFTs an…
You can. But why? Hertz probably likes managing their inventory with an in-house database rather than integrating with some other ecosystem they have limited control over.
NFTs offer the ability to separate ownership and management of a thing from the business that created that thing. That makes no sense for a company that has inventory they personally control and doesn't want people to resell for liability reasons.
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#40EDIT: meh.
I think NTFs would make sense in some cases by providing a publick ledger of properties. It would avoid situations like that when a Luton man got his home stolen from him: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59069662
NFTs also get stolen. For example: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb4nq/investor-says-bored-a...