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The Lesson to Unlearn: paulgraham.com/lesson.html
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Zane Bitter
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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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Paul Graham
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See footnote 4.
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Andrew Stepner
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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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Paul Graham
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That's true. But it gets in the way of learning.
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Oisín Moran
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Small typo: "doing working in a field" -> "working in a field"
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Paul Graham
@paulg
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Fixed; thanks!
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Tristan Homsi
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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 @nntaleb pic.twitter.com/M3OJauuSGl
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Ryan Petersen
@typesfast
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I wonder how a company can do hiring interviews and performance reviews that aren’t hackable?
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Karri Saarinen
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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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