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by mchannon 2769 days ago
Doy.

The point of the post was that they were/are optimizing for the wrong things.

Some people watch "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" and chuckle when they realize they're not.

A smaller subset of people take it to the next level and (would) hire the 5th grader instead of the adult to do an adult's job.

Life's not a game show, but some (most?) of us forget that when we conduct interviews.