hairyfigment comments on Negative and Positive Selection - Less Wrong

71 Post author: alyssavance 06 July 2012 01:34AM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 05 July 2012 06:25:35AM 4 points [-]

Yeah, I thought while reading the OP:

  • One could likely get into Harvard by winning a Nobel Prize, or being the guy from "Good Will Hunting".

  • This method seems neither guaranteed nor widely known.

Comment author: DanArmak 05 July 2012 06:34:01PM 4 points [-]

If you've already got a Nobel, what do you need to get into Harvard for?

Comment author: CronoDAS 06 July 2012 01:35:06AM 1 point [-]

Maybe you want to study something you're not already an expert in? (For example, Feynman spent some time taking graduate biology courses.)