As David Frum said at the start, one day you will not believe how much this all didn’t happen

And in more Berkeley news, this new article details how Berkeley, Calif. transformed from a punchline of anti-housing development activity to one of the most pro-housing cities in California.
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Skynet writes numerous editorials saying that Skynet would never exterminate humanity.

The only two fully qualified candidates were ranked 3 and 6 out of 7.

Lesson: enthusiastic cover letters now trump accomplishments if you’re dealing with lazy hiring managers!

So I’m reviewing CVs to hire a postdoc. Did my evaluation, then asked AI tools (pushed by leadership!) to do the same. Holy crap.

The AI heavily prioritizes what the applicant says they are excited to do over what they’ve actually done, or actually know. It ranked self-promotion over expertise.

The prophet.

This dense person does not grasp that he is admitting that he had tons of information information about Robert F. Kennedy, relevant to, eg, his Senate confirmation, but is only revealing it now, to talk about himself.

I also perform better in evaluations when you disallow the people who outperform me from participating.