80,000 Hours (your employer?) has the following as its web page title:
“How to make a difference with your career”
and writes on the front page
“If you want to make the world a better place…”
To me, those are synonyms to “changing the world,” for the purpose of career description.
Done!
No, everyone who applies to Google is not ulta-smart but most who are hired are probably pretty smart.
Given that everyone who are hired are smart, gwerns point is valid.
Perhaps it’s the other way around? The study only suggests that the time of day affects the decision, not that worse decisions are made when hungry.
Sometimes the environment really is adversarial, though.
Regular expressions as implemented in many programming languages work fine for almost all inputs, but with terrible upper bounds. This is why libraries like re2 are needed if you want to let anyone on the Internet use regular expressions in your search engine.
Another example that comes to mind is that quicksort runs in n·log n expected time if randomly sorted beforehand.
This post had more statements of the type “p < 0.01” than I would expect at LW. I recently read “Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective” here.