Researcher says his repeatedly rejected 'too weird' paper ended up cited by OpenAI
prof_g · x · 2026-10-09
Researcher profg recounts that most of his papers—except surveys and quick pieces—were rejected over and over for being too weird, irrelevant or eccentric. Ironically, the one time OpenAI cited his research, it was for one of those repeatedly rejected older papers.
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