Ha! That's very clever, author. You clearly have a similar sense of humor to...oh, it's Leslie Lamport again.

And then he managed to turn that into a negative $50 million net worth.

And also he briefly started a religion based around having an AI inventing a Christian god or something because his story wasn't crazy enough.

Also, I love that it was open sourced. Although it sounds like from the GitHub page summary that there was some shenanigans involving a "certain very high profile game studio" that I'd love to hear more tea about.

This doesn't go far enough. Employees on hiring committees select for conformance with their peers on the hiring committee because conformance with the other hiring committee members is the only success signal they will ever receive. An interviewer at a sufficiently large company will never receive any feedback (let alone timely feedback) on whether they are choosing good or bad coworker candidates. They will only ever get feedback on how other interviewers vote. In such an environment, the best you can learn to do is to conform.

In a small startup, where you immediately begin to work with the person you chose, you will get a lot more feedback on the people you chose to hire. Even then, though, you will never get any feedback on your false negatives. Are you rejecting lots of good candidates? You'll never know.

Ah ah ah, you're describing how things were before Trump v. Slaughter, when the Supreme Court justices ruled that Republican Presidents are allowed to fire the heads of non-executive agencies so long as they are not the Federal Reserve.

> Why do you even need an AI assistant here?

To take notes on what we talked about.

> Why do you want to do that?

Because I want to retain the contents of this conversation, and I don't want to be distracted by note-taking. I want to be in the moment and also have a record of what we talked about for later.

> Why do you want a record?

Because I expect that what you're going to say is valuable enough to want to reference later. Perhaps you will give me the name of a cool podcast, or you'll give me very good, detailed advice. Perhaps you'll mention when your upcoming birthday is or a favorite brand of a product, and it'll be useful for gifting.

> Why is that information valuable to you?

Because I value you and your opinions.

If I decide to take a picture of what's going on outside my house for no reason at all, should that also be allowed?

if I decide to put a camera in my living room pointed out the window and record, should that be allowed?

If I decide to run a business out of my home, does that change anything?

This case is crazy, but it's not insane for free speech reasons.

It's totally fine to filter out resumes in a completely random, content-independent way. Grabbing the fourth resume down in the pile and offering them the job is a perfectly fair albeit stupid way to make a hiring decision. However, AIs are very, very good at capturing biases, and it would not at all surprise me if an AI told to filter resumes is going to end up filtering with some biases for things that you definitely do not want to filter on, like the name of the candidate. And it might be that everybody resume that claims it fixed a typo in a major open source project gets a pass, but resumes that only list their own projects get rejected 60% of the time, so you're losing more good candidates than bad.

Is it not? If I spend 10 years writing the greatest novel of all time, and you, a publishing company, make copies and sell 10 million copies, I feel entitled to some recompense.

My labor has value to me, but only the product of that labor has value to anyone else.