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Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by rightbyte » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:29 PM UTC

Terr_ wrote: post #555

QuercusMax wrote: post #340

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That's what's so incredibly stupid about the tariffs, immigration crackdowns, etc. Life is not a zero-sum game, and treating it like it is just makes it worse for everyone - unless you're the sort of person who really gets off on having other suffer worse than you.

It's less that they "get off on" suffering (though I'm sure some do) and more that they believe some conclusions: 1. The universe simply does not permit an arrangement of humans that isn't a hierarchy of exploitation and suffering. 2. There is a "natural" hierarchy which is also a just one, where good people deserve to exploit and bad people deserve to suffer, and of course I'm not one of the bad people. ("Just-world…

Sure but there is some sort of grayscale.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by stainablesteel » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:30 PM UTC

SoftTalker wrote: post #485

> Still, stretched-thin HR teams say it’s the only way to handle thousands of applicants. You're doing it wrong if you're considering "thousands" of applicants. First of all ask your current good employees if they can refer anyone. If you need to go to resumes, sort by qualifications. Screen out obvious robo-applications, you know them when you see them just like you know spam email from the subject line alone. Hint:…

it's not, HR people are always lazy. i would ask a single chat bot to review every resume/cover letter and suggest the best based on some criteria, i would also ask it to cluster them into generalizable groups so i can review it

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by rightbyte » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:32 PM UTC

AyyWS wrote: post #364

QuercusMax wrote: post #340

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That's what's so incredibly stupid about the tariffs, immigration crackdowns, etc. Life is not a zero-sum game, and treating it like it is just makes it worse for everyone - unless you're the sort of person who really gets off on having other suffer worse than you.

What society or culture survived by taking the high road? I'm reminded of Princess Leia's quote: No! Alderaan is peaceful, we have no weapons.

Well weapons wouldn't have helped them either.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:33 PM UTC

Isamu wrote: post #455

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #386

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> Monopolies and labor abuses were mostly in check Really? Transatlantic slavery by far the biggest labour abuse, then the company towns, then Standard Oil which was allowed to run amok for 30 years then broken up (which then consolidated into ExxonMobil and Chevron again). These are just off the top of my head. The US from my point of view has been a puritanical, borderline genocidal, enslaving, cowardly and hypocri…

>By many measures the Roman and British empires were 'more successful'. With the Roman Empire you are overlooking their slavery, genocide, etc, most of your critique applies. Britain at least outlawed slavery at home, but not in territories abroad, hence the slavery in the Americas and elsewhere

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Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by mcv » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:34 PM UTC

imglorp wrote: post #363

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #173

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The sickle and hammer looking real interesting now.

We (the US) had a very successful, carefully designed system that seems to have been an unstable configuration. It was neither hammer and sickle nor single megacorporation: it was balanced on a hill between both. The combination of (1) checks and balances, (2) separation of money, religion, corporation, and government, and (3) regulation in moderation worked pretty well for around 200 years. Monopolies and labor abus…

Why would it be unstable? Most of Europe still has it. The US chose to do away with it.

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Post by ryoshoe » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:34 PM UTC

bluecalm wrote: post #568

mingus88 wrote: post #274

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I’m not that surprised. To reach the level of billionaire, it’s pretty much a requirement that you abandon all empathy and ethics. What’s surprising is that nobody in their circle has educated them on the concept of a win-win. These people could be folk heros, universally loved and respected in ways buying a social media platform and banning all the haters will never accomplish.

What about a guy who made a popular Java game in his spare time and sold it to Microsoft for 2 billion? What in that process required forgoing empathy and ethics? That's just one example. There are plenty of rich people who got there fairly and created a lot of value along the way.

The "pretty much" disclaimer in their comment covers this case. But it doesn't dispute their idea that most billionaires reached that level of wealth by exploiting others

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by giantg2 » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:36 PM UTC

This would be such a cash cow. You can record this because AI isn't a person. Ask it questions that might lead to it violating hiring law with stuff like family status, disabily topic, etc.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by FirmwareBurner » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:36 PM UTC

jodrellblank wrote: post #281

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #269

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It does! > "The prevalence of overweight and obesity is rising dramatically in children as well as in adults. Between 1975 and 2016, the prevalence of obesity in Europe rose 138%, with a 21% rise between 2006 and 2016.1 The prevalence of overweight rose by 51% between 1975 and 2016, and by 8% between 2006 and 2016. It is expected that by 2030, over half of Europe will live with obesity – up to 89% in some countries.…

>No, you're one of many people who believes they are immune to marketing.

Then why am I not eating McDs and Coke? Could it be that some people have developed self control?

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:37 PM UTC

rightbyte wrote: post #611

Terr_ wrote: post #555

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It's less that they "get off on" suffering (though I'm sure some do) and more that they believe some conclusions: 1. The universe simply does not permit an arrangement of humans that isn't a hierarchy of exploitation and suffering. 2. There is a "natural" hierarchy which is also a just one, where good people deserve to exploit and bad people deserve to suffer, and of course I'm not one of the bad people. ("Just-world…

Sure but there is some sort of grayscale.

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Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by FirmwareBurner » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:38 PM UTC

nosianu wrote: post #335

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #269

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You are not immune to marketing. I thought that too. Decades ago, when I left home for university I had to do my own laundry. That means buying detergent. I had always known as obvious that the commercials for that stuff were so bad that there was zero chance it would influence me. At the supermarket checkout I noticed I had the brand name detergent my basket, not the much cheaper no-name brand. Because subconsciousl…

>You are not immune to marketing.

Don't speak for me please. We are not the same. I just buy the cheap detergent. I never end up with expensive shit in my basket just because of the brand.