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>What are computer scientists usually rewarded with?

The Turing Award is considered by most to be the highest award in computer science.

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Hinton already won a Turing award, so this Nobel just seems doubly absurd.

I hope he turns it down, but it's a monetary prize too and it takes a lot of dedication to science to turn it down.

Isn’t he a socialist?

Doesn't matter. He wants to work on AI risk, right?

Unsure of your point - I meant he doesn’t believe in provate property, so the prize money shouldn’t be a factor.

If he truly believes what he says he believes.

Because you can use money to do things? Even if you don't want private property after AGI, you need it now.

Believing that you can do a better job of allocating your Nobel prize money than a central authority is free-market thinking.

If he’s a socialist, he should donate all his property to the government, including the entire prize money.

Isn't the standard AI doom position that the government taking control just kills everyone a few years later? The money would be for research, not welfare or whatever the government would use it for.

Oh yeah! I forgot about this one! Extremely prestigious in CS but less known by the public unfortunately.

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