[gwern]

> It's like how software engineers who are at Google are worse if they're better competitive programmers.

That's not true. It didn't replicate and Norvig has said as much somewhere on HN, IIRC.

(I also agree with the other criticisms that this 'old vs young' setup in OP is obviously at least partially, and perhaps entirely, regression to the mean and Berkson.)

[arjie]

Thanks for sharing. I didn't know that.

[gwern]

(To stop being lazy, the 2020 reference is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426329 )