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What the author is getting at here: > Climbing Mount Everest and getting a PhD are both hard. I wouldn’t say that doing one means you can do the other “no prob
by sarreph 2mo ago
What the author is getting at here:
> Climbing Mount Everest and getting a PhD are both hard. I wouldn’t say that doing one means you can do the other “no problem.”
and here:
> Surgeons and electrical engineers may be extremely smart and accomplished, but that doesn’t mean they have the ability to weigh in on climate science.
Feels tangentially like a version of Nobel disease[0], discussed here[1] a couple of weeks ago.
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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166918
- rob74 2mo agoI mean, in the meantime, the US president is weighing in on technical design decisions of aircraft carriers, and he has neither a PhD nor a Nobel Prize, so... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-aircraft-carriers-steam-catapults https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-aircra...
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- customguy 2mo agoThat probably should be "meaningfully weigh in" or something. I don't even remember most of the things I "weighed in on" on the web, but everybody'll tell ya, they'll say, he had the least amount of clue possible in any of these things, they actually didn't think it's possible but it's true. But then they realised that even a coin toss gets it right more often than that so they said, wait a minute, this is real, this is happening, this is actually what's going on and they were all amazed because it had never been seen before. So now I'm wired to this flock of ducks that goes into the opposite direction of where I want to go to find out the scientifically best spot to be in at any given moment.
- thijson 2mo agoThese kinds of late design decisions can cost a huge amount of money. And it may cost lives because it's now shoe horned in, less reliable.
- Drupon 2mo agoLookin at you, Terry Tao