NeurIPS reviewers are asking claims that are impossible to disprove on budget
roydanroy · x · 2026-07-26
A researcher replies that many NeurIPS reviews boil down to claims that are impossible to empirically disprove on the available budget. The exchange riffs on a tabular PFN-style question and ends with “Jensen is happy,” underscoring how statistical arguments can drift into reviewer trolling.
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