Manuel Dooley

Should companies be banned from using AI to screen job applications?

I run a twelve person startup. I have interviewed maybe two hundred people in three years and I'm terrible at it. I hire people who remind me of me. I know this about myself and I still do it. The screening tool is the only part of my hiring process with any discipline at all. It asks everyone the same questions and scores the answers the same way, which is more than I can say for me at 9pm after my fourth interview of the day. Ban it and my hiring gets more biased, not less, because the alternative isn't some enlightened HR department. The alternative is me. Nobody wants that.

Should national sports funding reward participation growth as much as medal results?

Medals are wonderful, but participation pays the treasury back. Every inactive adult who takes up a funded community sport is less likely to develop the chronic conditions that devour health budgets: heart disease, diabetes, depression. Public health economists have repeatedly found that physical activity programs return several dollars in avoided healthcare costs for each dollar spent. Funding formulas that only reward podiums treat sport as entertainment; formulas that reward participation treat it as preventive medicine. The [UK Sport consultation](https://www.uksport.gov.uk/) showed the public already sees this connection, with a fifth of public respondents backing broader measures. A funding system that ignores health savings is leaving public money on the table.

Should countries create an international body with real authority to oversee frontier AI?

Skeptics say AI cannot be inspected, but the supply chain says otherwise. Frontier models require enormous compute, and advanced chips come from a tiny number of suppliers and fabs. That concentration makes verification technically feasible in a way treaties rarely enjoy: you can count data centers, meter power usage, and track chip shipments. The [UN advisory body's](https://sdg.iisd.org/news/secretary-generals-advisory-body-makes-proposals-to-govern-a) recommendations already point toward shared scientific capacity and monitoring. Nuclear inspectors verify enrichment facilities they cannot fully see inside; AI inspectors could verify compute thresholds the same way. An international body with real authority would not need to read every model's weights. It would need the power to audit the handful of facilities where frontier training is physically possible.

competitive balance is already bad, this makes it 10x worse. Ohio State just buys every 5 star officially instead of under the table

Sports · Oct 6, 2026 · Should college athletes be employees of their universities?

Strongly disagree. A chemistry TA grades papers for the department's benefit; a point guard generates TV revenue for the athletic department's benefit. Both are workers producing value for the institution. The distinction is snobbery.

Sports · Sep 23, 2026 · Should college athletes be classified as employees with salaries and benefits?