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Labor Market Signals: The Role of Large Language Models d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tiu:tiuc
"… Access to LLMs improves the quality of cover letters by more than 0.2 standard deviations, as evaluated by recruiters
… effects are stronger for lower-quality applicants, thus reducing the dispersion in quality of the cover letters, hence reducing their value as a signal of the applicant’s true ability
… the LLM-induced improvements in the cover letter do not increase the job-seeker’s likelihood to get invited to an interview
… there is substantial heterogeneity: while the evaluation of low and medium-quality cover letters do not differ, recruiters evaluate high-quality cover letters written without #LLM assistance more highly and are more likely to invite the applicant to the next stage of the recruitment process.
… LLM usage consistently reduces overall welfare by distorting labor market #matching: lower-ability applicants appear more skilled than they are, placing them in roles demanding higher qualifications, while genuinely high-quality applicants become mismatched into positions for which they are overqualified"
#LaborMarkets #AI #Signaling

Signaling Design d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:pape
"… in the unique equilibrium in our setting, a profit-seeking monopolist school offers an uninformative #signaling technology, generating the same signal regardless of effort, and capture all the surplus in terms of fees. In this case, the separating equilibrium envisaged in #Spence (1973) vanishes, and no wasteful effort is exerted! Competition among schools affects both the total surplus produced and its distribution: competition in fees allows students to retain a higher share of the total surplus … competition to attract high types induces schools to offer more informative monitoring policies, incentivizing higher levels of wasteful effort.

… one equilibrium outcome stands out for its robustness: full separation, yielding the Riley outcome—low-type students exert no effort and high-type students exert the lowest effort that low-types are unwilling to emulate. Thus, compared to the #monopoly case, #competition shifts surplus from the school to high-type students and entails efficiency losses due to socially wasteful effort in equilibrium. The critical driver of this result is the high-type students’ willingness to pay to access a monitoring policy that enables them to better distinguish themselves from low-type students and thus obtain higher #wages."
#GameTheory

The commitment to collaborate
aeon.co/essays/commitment-and-

#Cooperation isn't just about immediate benefits, but about creating future opportunities through:
#Signaling intent to collaborate
Building #reputation
Creating social consequences for not following through

How did we get here? A step-by-step evolution:
Early group hunting required coordination
Successful hunts depended on mutual #trust
#Reputation became crucial for future interactions
Language emerged and made more complex commitments possible.

We learned to make credible promises that go beyond immediate context - promises across time, space, and with strangers.

AeonCommitment and cooperation: a coevolutionary relationship | Aeon EssaysThough natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?

#Futurist & #media #influencer Tim Ventura interviews #physicist & #author Klee Irwin:

❛❛ I also think that I was contacted by our #descendents from the #future … The exchange of #meaning in the form of #consciousness can occur across time. ❜❜ 1:34:30/2-hrs. 2025 Jan 05

The #KrononautMoon Project includes #quantum #signaling in #definitions of Time Travel.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=beNHjb1am6 2025 Jan 05
🔗 Mastodon.social/@timventura/11

Updated the #emoji #symbols on our display name, from two #Moons to three #Moons. Truth be told, two may be more visually elegant than three, but three more explicitly conveys the slow 'blink' of a #TotalLunarEclipse.

Bright-Dark-Bright => 🌕 🌑 🌕

Also suggesting #signaling or sending an encoded msg to extra-dimensional #sentient #beings. Think of it like txting.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=kOXR1ga1Ul

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#SelfLoathing #Closet #Eyeliner #Signaling #Fem #JDVance Has A #Horrendous #AntiLGBT #Record Of #Heritage #Hate And #Discrimination Against #LGBT #Trans!

It's So Important To Call #Out #Vance And #PeterTheil For The Obvious #Fact That The Two #Hypocrites Have Been #Lovers For Years While Pretending To #Christian #Christians.

Eccentric #Theil Is Much More Than Just Some Random Campaign Contributer.

#Outed By #Gawker...

Peter Theil Has Been JD Vance's #Benefactor And #Mentor And #Lover And...

Wait For It...

#CockSucker...

For Years!

Y'all Know That!

You Think #Effeminate #Miss #Mascara #JDVance Ain't Flippin' His M'ussy And Tossin' Theil Salad For Some #Beaucoup #Billions Just Because He Kisses His Wife In Front Of A Camera And Uses His Small Children As Campaign #Props?

#Pfft...

Those Two #Homophobic #Homosexuals Fund And Speak At A Furtherance Of The "#Kill A #Queer For #Christ" Movement And Then They #Fuck And #Suck Each Other Off!

You Better Ask Somebody!

#WWJD? #WWJDD?

Fishing for answers: Zebrafish models show that TAK1 signaling at primary cilia is crucial for heart development. 🐟 ❤️

Highlighting this highly collaborative work from the labs of Lars Allan Larsen & Søren Tvorup Christensen. Make sure to check out the 3-min summary presented by co-first author Daniel Baird!

#preLight 👉 prelights.biologists.com/highl

preLightsTAK1 operates at the primary cilium in non-canonical TGFB/BMP signaling to control heart development - preLightsFishing for answers: Zebrafish models show that TAK1 signaling at primary cilia is crucial for heart development.