Stabilizer comments on [LINK] 2014 Fields Medals and Nevanlinna Prize anounced - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Sarunas 13 August 2014 10:58AM

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Comment author: Stabilizer 14 August 2014 10:13:55PM -1 points [-]

Nobel Prizes, especially in physiology/medicine and economics, are probably more indicative of social impact (which is what I think Bostrom's colleague meant when he used the word "important").

Comment author: shminux 14 August 2014 10:47:05PM 4 points [-]

He was explicitly talking about mathematicians, in math Fields medal is the equivalent of Nobel. Besides, the same exact criticism Bostrom levels against Fields can be applied to Nobels.