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by aristus 6068 days ago
It is elitist, but also their choice, and while the false negative rate may be high the false positives are what they are worried about.

I personally filter on "has made major contributions to interesting projects" and "speaks two or more human languages". That discriminates against a lot of people too. My tertiary filter is "ignores my filters but is impressive enough anyway".