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		maleldil on Sept 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Impactful AI Research No, not an American. Did you mean that Americans have lower standards than Europeans in this respect? I'm confused about your last sentence. Anyway, my note was specifically about publishing NLP research at ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, etc.), where publishing mediocre work hasn't been difficult. Just go through the proceedings, and you'll see that's the case. I don't know about NeurIPS.

Nevermark on Sept 25, 2024 [–]

> No, not an American. Did you mean that Americans have lower standards than Europeans in this respect? I'm confused about your last sentence.

Perhaps the US has more flexible hiring standards? Given all the school dropout success stories here. As apposed to lower standards.

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