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Comment by vunderba

8 days ago

There's a tangentially related concept to this where Nobel Prize winners have held, shall we say, rather questionable beliefs in areas outside their domain of expertise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

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iainctduncan  8 days ago

It's definitely a broader thing you see not unfrequently in academia too (I'm a very mature phd student right now in fact!), but man, programmers seem to have it real bad.

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