Duwayne

Essentially wealth taxes. Or taxes on capital. Yet capital is needed for investment that fuels growth. Wealth taxes in SA are folly against the context of low savings, low investment with consequences of high unemployment and poverty. Wealth taxes is the equivalent of eating seeds and then wondering why there are no harvests. The Cape Town equivalent of aPPP (poverty perpetuation policies). The policy is the political response to poverty, which is to help alleviate poverty (which is diverting resources to consumption). Poverty reduction, however, is funnelling resources to investment. SA’s poverty alleviation programs are directly causing the poverty it’s trying to alleviate.

We need to make South African history a compulsory subject in HS, these takes I’m seeing from you guys? Why are we basing South Africa’s entire history on one documentary 😭😭😭

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

Its Weekend 🇿🇦 “a few hours later” Enjoy weekend 🇿🇦

The trophy for the Cadillac Championship next week + the idea behind it

South Africans now face the extraordinary reality that the Minister of Police, the National Commissioner, and a Deputy National Commissioner have all been suspended or placed on leave. This suspension is necessary and welcome; but it does lay bare the deeply alarming state of SAPS senior management. Time for a proper clean out!