Would you rather get $1 million secretly wired to your bank account, or publicly receive a Nobel Prize, Oscar, or knighthood from the Queen of England?
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Would you rather get $1 million secretly wired to your bank account, or publicly receive a Nobel Prize, Oscar, or knighthood from the Queen of England?
- $1 million wired73.9%
- Publicly receive award26.1%
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wanna point out that as far as the hypothetical goes there is a huge difference between "receive a nobel prize" and "do work that is worth getting a nobel prize for" (and similarly for the money really)
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i think it is actively bad for me to get a nobel prize if i haven't done commensurate work, as in i would pay negative dollars for this, i don't want to distort the meaning of the nobel prize as a signal this way
I agree about not getting it for not doing commensurate work. But if I don’t think I’ve done commensurate work and some other committee does, I’d be pleasantly surprised.
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