Woj.eth, founder of Mazury, explains how Web3 credentials could change hiring by aggregating verifiable professional data without assigning scores. The platform curates a person's on-chain activity for recruiters, avoiding the ethical trap of quantifying someone's worth like an IQ test.
That is very interesting. Let's try to break it down and maybe give a few practical examples. The first one that pops into my mind, if you record everything on the internet, every interaction you do, I'm pretty sure you can model a pretty standard and indicative algorithm of your CPU. Like how smart are you? In the sense, very practically, objectively. I mean, it's hard to put objective on top of being smart. What does it mean?
Yeah.
But you could probably build some models that deduct someone's IQ, right?
Probably you could.
In one definition of IQ. And you can probably include that into Masery so that you could apply to a specific position showing off your 155 IQ, whatever it is. Yeah.
At some point it's going to be probably possible to build a score like that. We don't want to build scores because there is so much bias in those scores that—
Why?
When you build a model like that, this is just going to put you into one score of how intelligent are you? or just putting you into a number, there's a huge responsibility on the creator of such score for this to be good. So for Mazuri right now, we are thinking much more in this quantitative effort. So we just highlight your credentials. We help recruiters to show off what's actually valuable, what's required a lot of effort to get and a lot of skill to get. But yeah, we're not doing scores or anything like this.
So that is more of an ethical choice or is it just because you think it's not insightful enough?
Right now it's just an ethical choice because I'm certain that right now we don't have enough data to create scores good enough for this. Okay.
So you're like whatever score comes out is not going to be indicative of anything much. It's just going to add bias to the system. Hence, I don't want to curate it.
Yes, right.
Exactly.
Exactly. Right now, maybe it's going to change in 5 years, especially if we are able to build these scores in a privacy-preserving way. And we can actually serve the user that obtains the score rather than just we can tell the recruiter that somebody is really smart. I would love to build a system like that, but it's hard and it's a really thoughtful process.
But you as Masry, it's going to be your responsibility to sort of go deep Go dig into these models and try to understand which ones are high quality of output and indicative of someone's traits and which ones are just fluff. So is it your job?
It is our job to create the content to the recruiters. And it's our job to make it useful.
Sorry, does it mean that you are going to be in control of what someone can showcase about their identity? You're going to be able to decide what type of traits they're going to be able to showcase about themselves?
Yes, this is going to be a very opinionated part of our product. It's not very opinionated yet, but in the world where there's so much data about your interactions, it is going to be very much our product choice and our own research will be going into creating profiles that we believe are the most representative about you. And at the same time, they actually help the recruiters to make the hiring decisions. Maybe they help investors to make the investing decisions, but at the same time, they will not get too deep into your private world.
So what you guys are essentially is a sort of identity curator.
Yeah. If we win, we will not only be like— so first of all, we are aggregator. We create some sort of identity about your actions on the internet. We can do that because Web3 credentials allow you to query a lot of open data. And yeah, at some point when there is too much data that we aggregate, we need to start curating this and actually make it valuable. Yeah.
And so you think there's going to be companies that are going to subscribe to you guys because they align with your philosophy of curation of data, and then maybe your competitor is going to have some other type of company. Do you see a world like that?
Yeah, definitely.
Wow.
Yeah. Let's right now assume that the vision that Web3 credentials are eating the world and everybody holds 100 different NFTs that represent them, their professional actions, et cetera. If this vision comes true, then in 5 years we will have to hire a research team that does all the cool data analysis and data science and machine learning models about what pieces of this data is actually valuable and how do we filter it out through 100 million people. And yeah, it's very much going to be this algorithmic battle just as search engines compete On just search algorithms.
I like that term, that notion of algorithmic battle. I think it's symbolic.
It's a new term. It's like a very much 21st century term.
21st century algorithmic battle. You guys are going to be in the war. And I think it's— I mean, it makes sense.
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