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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by sametmax on Friday May 04, 2018 @08:25AM (#16993992)
So ? There is little value for a human being to be able to do so. Or humanity. We just decided that this particular challenge was worth a huge deal.

We don't give a gold medal for the fastest people to write from memory an algo for reversing a binary tree, or for the person capable of feeding the most children in a day.

It's completely arbitrary.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by nileshtrivedi on Saturday May 05, 2018 @03:29AM (#17000802)
The GP's point was about "it's just some arbitrary committee of people somewhere that decide who wins it". That's not the case for at least some Olympic sports.
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