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Unfortunately the public seems to be fairly unaware of what different dental specialties are until they are in serious duress.

This is a bad take. I will happily acknowledge the new term "slopository" which I had not heard before, while taking the author to task for malice towards theorists. STOC/FOCS/SODA, etc are not about "doing practical algorithms". If you want that, you go to ESA, ALENEX, or VLDB/SIGMOD, or any of the other more applied venues featuring this work. I don't think it's fair to just shit on theory because they don't do experiments---they're mathematicians, and it is fine to have absurd constants in your big-O as long as they are constants.

PS. I can have this view while simultaneously thinking that Ben is a badass.

Bender has been wrong about LLMs on so many counts that it is hard to take anything she says seriously. That said, the idea that a bunch of floats being pushed around in a network are "feeling something" stretches credence for me, and I am with her on this one thing, at least.

Schadenfreude is not a life-affirming feeling my dude. I wish you the best.

No it does not.