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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 7 Dec 2019
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    The Lesson to Unlearn: http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html 

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      2. Zane Bitter‏ @zerobanana 7 Dec 2019
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        I enjoyed this essay, but you should probably acknowledge that YC explicitly selects for people whose default attitude to everything is to look for a way to hack around it. It's literally a question on the application.

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 7 Dec 2019
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        See footnote 4.

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      2. Andrew Stepner‏ @andrewstepner 8 Dec 2019
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        What do you think of the partial counter argument that is sometimes heard: that skill at hacking tests is an indicator of intelligence and therefore sometimes a worthy measurement?

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 8 Dec 2019
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        That's true. But it gets in the way of learning.

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      2. Oisín Moran‏ @TheOisinMoran 7 Dec 2019
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        Small typo: "doing working in a field" -> "working in a field"

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 7 Dec 2019
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        Fixed; thanks!

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      1. Tristan Homsi‏ @homsiT 7 Dec 2019
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        "Tests can be divided into two kinds: those that are imposed by authorities, and those that aren't. Tests that aren't imposed by authorities are inherently unhackable," Reminds me of this from @nntalebpic.twitter.com/M3OJauuSGl

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      2. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 7 Dec 2019
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        I wonder how a company can do hiring interviews and performance reviews that aren’t hackable?

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      3. Karri Saarinen‏ @karrisaarinen 7 Dec 2019
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        Work trials quite unhackable for interviewing, since you test the actual ability to work on a particular product and how they communicate. Performance reviews are harder since anything you measure can be gamed (most people don’t realize it though)

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      1. Eric Braun‏ @SouthShoreEric 7 Dec 2019
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        Most schools perform what Data Scientists know is wrong — they overfit the models (students) so they can only work well with the training data. Once in the real world, they fail. Broader experiential learning works better for people and machines #edchat #learning #pblchat #ai

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