Nick Bostrom <bostrom@ndirect.co.uk> wrote:
> What to you are the boring standard questions are for
> the interviewer the central concerns that her listeners want to hear
> about. The interviewer will feel that her role is to be the sketical
> inquirer that asks challenging questions; it doesn't matter what the
> topic is, her role is always the same (though she can be more or less
> friendly). The repetitiveness of the default questions (which the
> interviewer or the producer will be quite proud of having thought
> of) is probably quite numbing
I must second this! What seem like innane questions and fears to most members of this List actually are the common questions and common attitudes of most of the general public. If I had to pick the biggest flaw in thinking that I see repeated constantly on this List, it would have to be the assumption that most rational people would agree with our views. It just isn't so.
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