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Probably this science is in it's infancy, and as data grows and algorithms are refined, it will go places we can scarcely imagine at the moment.

I can hardly wait for the day when a baby is born and "garbageman" or "engineer" is stamped on it's head and it becomes futile to argue with empirical truth about "best fit".

Actually, kidding aside I think companies and employees may both benefit from this research if it is applied properly. But if a better form of these tools were available to our current system it would likely produce some very bad effects. I think maybe we have some important decisions about humans and their role in society coming up soon. Because technology never seems to go back in the bottle.



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