army1987 comments on Stanislav Petrov Day - Less Wrong

35 Post author: gwern 26 September 2011 02:49PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 September 2012 12:47:33AM 2 points [-]

A non-farce award should base its judgment on results, not effort.

BTW, that appears to be how the Nobel Prize in Physics is achieved: for being shown to be right, with relatively little regard to how you came to be right.