The Nobel Prize is probably a net good for the world and a net negative for science, because it makes scientists want to win a Nobel Prize.

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• Science is a strong-link problem: what it amounts to depends on how good the best work is, not on how bad the worst is. AMAdam Mastroianni11 Apr 2023
• Nobel laureates are far more likely than other scientists to have a hobby unrelated to their work and tend to do more multidisciplinary work, as elite athletes sample widely before they specialise. DEDavid Epstein7 Sept 2021
• The ideal outcome for science is to have millions of AI-aided human scientists who follow their curiosity and become more ambitious, rather than a few labs using proprietary models to solve trophy problems. FCFrançois Chollet14 Oct 2026
• AI research is on a good trajectory overall — good for science and good for society — and existential concerns will only become relevant in the distant future. YBYoshua Bengio12 Aug 2023
• It is good that the search for understanding will never end, since there will always be new discovery; without it we would stagnate. SHStephen Hawkingc. 2002

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