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Disgusting to use someone who was a victim at a young age of sexual harassment at the hands of the most powerful person in the world to make fun of the new most powerful person in the world. This is really gross, I'm blocking you either way but hope you listen to your replies and be a better person

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I'm no expert. But I'm certain that anyone proposing such an idea can be thrown out of government without any particular consideration for any other views they hold. They see the nation as a household having a garage sale; they are unfit for public office, even in a shitty small country like England

When was the last time you tried to get a job at McDonald's or Walmart? This is absolutely not true - service industry has been using those really terrible psychometric tests for years, I've known many qualified people who got auto-rejected from such jobs

Yeah I feel like this study shows little to nothing that can reasonably be extrapolated to other kinds of hiring, and it's disappointing to see it being shared so widely and uncritically

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I didn't even realize until after I got in the shower that the piece (and maybe the underlying study) very casually treats correlation (two things changed at the same time) the same as causation (one of those things caused the other thing). It doesn't even seem to consider other possibilities

A good cover letter is still far more revealing. But they've always been few and far between

The main benefit of LLM CLs is that candidates are (slightly) less likely to shoot themselves in the foot by turning in a badly-written cover letter with typos. They move up to neutral. Not nothing!

I still read them. Most cover letters are meh because people don't understand the goal isn't to restate your qualifications (we already have your resume, which is easier to read). The goal of the cover letter is to demonstrate *how* you work, and why you're specifically well-suited to the role

As the piece also affirms, most people still don't know what makes a good cover letter! An LLM would need *far* more than your resume and the job ad to make a good cover letter.

If your letter is just tying your experience to the ad, congrats, you just made a harder-to-read copy of your resume

But I don't see any obvious reason to extrapolate anything from freelance hiring into W2 hiring broadly, and definitely not based on the role of the cover letter

It reminds me of the productivity studies where it's all extrapolated from call centers in India - like, sure, it is not without use, but they're specifically measuring that work because it's easy to measure. It's easy to see price fluctuations in freelance rates because they are easier to fluctuate

The thesis - cover letters are more noise and less signal, so offered wages are lower - I cannot imagine happening in W2 world, because cover letters have been widely regarded as noise for many years. Many (most?) companies now have W2 pay scales - ie freelancer pay is already more flexible than W2

Anecdotally I've found this to be true. My whole family lives in Idaho, and when I wore my Bernie hoodie around town, plenty of people told me that they had voted for Trump but were fans of Bernie - very clear he had many fans that were never going to vote for any Clinton, Biden, or Harris

Extremely funny that Dems specifically pushing ACA so hard allows the Republicans to frame their own position as a crusade of change against the flawed system. Both sides being squirrelly about the fact that they both represent schemes that would in no way ensure universal healthcare