Researchers debate why obsessive paper-counting became a career red flag
thegautamkamath · x · 2026-10-10
AI researchers are debating publication-volume culture on X. Andrew Wilson says he can't understand why people think padding paper counts helps their careers — it's such an obvious red flag it "almost feels like performance art."
His guess: some are so blindly driven by a single objective, in this case paper count, that they completely lose all sense. The thread reflects growing criticism of current academic incentives in the ML community.
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