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Ask HN: How long until a social media influencer wins a Nobel Prize?
The Nobel Committee has shown a tendency to award prizes not just for meaningful technical contributions, but also for work with just contemporary relevance. This could be seen as an attempt to maintain their own relevance in the modern world. Given this trend, is it inevitable that a social media influencer with a large following but no original scientific work will receive a Nobel Prize? If so, how soon might this happen?