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Do you think (HN) that this incentive boost will mean more people who're working on fringe risky ideas will get the energy and persistence to keep going? Will w
by tw1010 8y ago
Do you think (HN) that this incentive boost will mean more people who're working on fringe risky ideas will get the energy and persistence to keep going? Will we see a bump in 10 or so years of innovations coming from people who would have otherwise given up (had this award not been given)? Hard to measure of course, but what's your hunch?
- BucketSort 8y agoIf anything it's demotivating. Other people that have also contributed greatly were just ignored by this award. While those that received the award were mostly represented by big corps Facebook(LeCun) and Google(Hinton) -- even though these three are deserving as well, especially Hinton. Awards like this are quite stupid. The award isn't even based on a single breakthrough, but on their "collective achievement." This was just a PR thing. Who does science for awards anyway? I thought that was an athlete thing.
- ignoramous 8y ago> Other people that have also contributed greatly were just ignored by this award. Curious: Apart from Jurgen Schmidhuber, who else do you think were left out and why do you think so?