Tyler Cowen: belief

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…It's interesting that you learn so much about a person when you're interviewing them for a job or for Emergent Ventures. You can read their application, but just in the first 10 minutes, their vibe—three minutes, but yes. Whatever's going on there that's so informative, the AIs won't have, just from the writing. Not at first. But I think I've heard of projects—this is secondhand, I'm not sure how true it is—but interviews are being recorded by companies that do a lot of interviews. These will be fed into AIs and coded in particular ways. Then people, in essence, will be tracked through either their progress in the company or LinkedIn profile. We're going to learn something about those intangibles at some rate. I'm not sure how that will go, but I don't view it as something we can never learn about. Do you actually have a conscious theory of what's going on when you get on a call with somebody, and three minutes later you're like, "You're not getting the grant"? What happens?…

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