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> an informal term for the embrace of strange or scientifically unsound ideas by some Nobel Prize winners, usually later in life. It has been argued that the ef
by embedding-shape 2mo ago
> an informal term for the embrace of strange or scientifically unsound ideas by some Nobel Prize winners, usually later in life. It has been argued that the effect results, in part, from a tendency for Nobel winners to feel empowered by the award to speak on topics outside their specific area of expertise
Sounds pretty much like every founder out there who strike gold once in the past now believing their genius now clearly applies to everything everywhere, including country governance, economics and sociology. It probably doesn't help that others around them are affected in similar ways and become more sycophantic because of the "award" these two types of people win.
- amanaplanacanal 2mo agoAngela Collier has a terrific video about this : billionaires want you to know they could have done physics.
- burnerzzzzz 2mo agoseconded
- hammock 2mo agoFunny I just saw a video of Jeff Bezos saying this exact thing: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/g3_WSzLNTAw https://m.youtube.com/shorts/g3_WSzLNTAw
- ProllyInfamous 2mo agoIf anybody else wants to sip on this: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI6qIqURA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI6qIqURA> Thanks for some coffeetime thoughts. ---- Something I have in common with Ms. Collier is that we both interpreted Atlas Shrugged as satirical, when in fact Author Rand was dead serious on her "objectivist" theories within her book. ---- My Twin and I approach life almost entirely different, akin to his opposite enjoyment of Shrugged as "aspirational utopia." Even with identical DNA, our brains differ on such fundamental outlook of the elites' motivations (vs *almost everybody elses').
- 1-more 2mo agoI never thought about how they all talk about physics! Yow!
- Syzygies 2mo agoI thought this was how Nobel Prizes sickened fields. Mathematicians believe we're lucky to have been spared the Nobel Prize. While some repeat a discredited story this was because Gösta Mittag-Leffler was sleeping with Nobel's wife, it is generally felt that mixing ego and the possibility of a Nobel Prize has toxic effects on a field. We now have both the Fields Medal and the Abel Prize, but both pass over the midlife period when ego eclipses talent.
- cousinbryce 2mo agoA lot of that comes from becoming incredibly rich then adopting morals and policy preferences that align with that level of wealth inequality
- fred_is_fred 2mo agoLike making a payments platform and then 30 years later telling everyone the anti-christ is coming?
- croisillon 2mo ago"making" seems far fetched, "happened to be vested with shares" seems the most factual
- lofaszvanitt 2mo agoI don't think this phenomenon has anything to do with nobel laureates' tendency to be a bit erratic. This pretend to be stupid thing became common around the 90s....
- blitzar 2mo agoWhich comes first; the fraud or the title of 30 under 30?