How did a computer scientist such as Geoffrey Hinton manage to win a Nobel Prize in physics when computer science already has its own Nobel Prize equivalent in the Turing Awards?

"Good idea, but how can we wangle something that says 'Physics'?"

You can have your cake and eat it too

Why wait any longer for the one you love?

Satellites are polluting Earth's atmosphere with heavy metals. Could refueling them in orbit help? - Space

Why wait any longer for the world to begin?

^† They rationalise their decision thusly:

There you go.^†

BYD unleashes an EV industry reckoning that alarms Beijing - Fortune

"Where can we shoehorn it in? Chemistry is easy 'cos AlphaFold; but what about physics? A bit more challenging, right?"

[Younger voice] "But wait a minute, Ising-Lenz goes back to the 1920's. And didn't Hinton plagiarise rather a lot? He also didn't invent modern backprop, did he, that's Linnainmaa? And Amari preceded Hopfield, too. That's not a good look."

"Naah, Linnainmaa is a Finn. Can't give it to a bloody Finnish mathematician. Let's go for drinks. Brännvin anyone?"

I’m Considering Asking My Female Friend to Do Something Many Women Would Never Agree To - Slate Magazine

… then anything is possible. There’s no rule that a Nobel Prize has to make sense.^*

In December 1973, when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, comedian Tom Lehrer dropped his mic and stamped on it—satire had just died.

"Good point, I'm sure we can swing it. And let's tack on Hopfield while we're about it."

J.K. Rowling said that 65% of people in Britain are transgender. Where did she come up with that statistic?

They then move on to selectively provide their own version of history. But hey, it’s OK. They wanted controversy, didn’t they? Whatever.

In awarding prizes, the Nobel Committees often seem only marginally more competent than MTG is at explaining meteorology. And if they can give a literature prize for lyrics like:

Whatever.

WHO Monitors New Covid Variant Spreading in America and Europe - WIRED

A fly on the wall at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

"Didn't he do something with Boltzmann in it? That sounds physics-y. RBMs and stuff, eh?"

^* Fibiger got the 1926 Medicine prize for the discovery of Spiroptera carcinoma (Don’t ask).

Bond Yields Keeping Climbing. Governments Can Bring Them Down. - Barron's

"Hey guys, AI is pretty big so let's centre our prizes on it this year. We can get some attention, and it's all about advertising, at the end of the day, isn't it?"

When he's standing, in front of you

(Mumbles of assent)

4 ways women are physically stronger than men - The Washington Post

(Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize for Literature, 2016)

Whatever.

My 11 million SEK, Dr Jo.

Exclusive | Ken Moelis to Step Down as CEO of His Investment Bank - WSJ

[The basic structure of artificial neural networks] has close similarities with spin models in statistical physics applied to magnetism or alloy theory. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes research exploiting this connection to make breakthrough methodological advances in the field of ANN.

[Older voice] "Mmm. What about Hinton, he's widely regarded? Nobody got fired for buying IBM"

Fortunately, we are privy to the discussion that led up to this:

"Gasping": Scientists Make Breakthrough Toward Full Cure for HIV - futurism.com