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joe_mambatoday at 12:05 AM5 repliesview on HN

>Whenever I leave a company I make sure everything that belongs to the company goes back to them

Because you're probably come from a high trust culture where you've been taught reciprocal trust, responsibility and accountability, but there's people coming from low trust environments where exploiting loopholes and scamming everyone outside their inner circle is the norm, and it's the way they learned to get ahead in life, from school all the way to work and business.

They're brazen because they've never been caught or suffered consequences for their actions.

This isn't something you can screen for in a classic job interview.


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raframtoday at 1:26 AM

I’ve been seeing this “high-trust society” dog whistle a lot lately, and I think it’s one of the funniest of its kind. You truly want me to believe that the United States, a country with a history of slavery and segregation, a country that went through a historical period dominated by people literally called “robber barons,” was a high-trust society before immigrants from less industrialized places came and ruined that?

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rixedtoday at 6:13 AM

> This isn't something you can screen for in a classic job interview

Why not? Sounds not that hard. I actually believe this is something that would make a candidate looks good in an interview for many large corporations.

AussieWog93today at 12:24 AM

Ok, the implication that I'm reading between the lines is that this sort of behaviour is somehow more tolerated by people with names like Liu and Tan, but is this actually the case?

I know there's some evidence of Chinese people working at big tech and feeding data back to the CCP but is this a "low trust culture" issue in general or an extrapolation of that one pattern?

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noisy_boytoday at 1:58 AM

> Because you're probably come from a high trust culture where you've been taught reciprocal trust...

That is just a long sentence for "us" vs "those people".

Having said that I don't entirely deny the effect of society on people's behavior. But at the same time, I have seen people from so called high-trust society being all polished and nice on the surface while being assholes and people from so called low-trust society being genuinely decent people despite not having the right name or the surface polish.

Also, assholes tend to attract assholes and people of the same tribe/clan/race tend to form groups.

mmcwilliamstoday at 12:56 AM

Not sure you're being clear about what you mean, here. Is OpenAI's company culture something you consider "low trust"?

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