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Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far

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  1. buran77 · · focus · HN ↗
    > “An Interdisciplinary Synthesis Across Economics, Psychology, Biology, Philosophy, Game Theory, and Spiritual Tradition.”

    If one were inclined, they could shorten the title to "AI Synthesis Across Economics, Psychology, Biology, Philosophy, Game Theory, and Spiritual Tradition." Maybe that's an Easter egg.

    AI submissions, soon AI reviewers, and shortly after only AI readers.

    The guy's name is "nosloP" spelled backwards. Maybe spelled normally it's supposed to signify the opposite.

    1. locallost · · focus · HN ↗
      That the name in no slop backwards is too wild to be real, but it's a real person.

      I mean it's everywhere now. I complained already at my workplace multiple times, we get huge Claude generated documents, which people then ask Claude to summarize. I don't mind some of it in principle but people are too lazy now to input all the details so you get a bunch of fantasies that were explicitly ruled out already. It's tiring.

      1. orwin · · focus · HN ↗
        I went to a "town hall" at my company last friday, the slides were all obviously AI-generated, the text was too, without anybody proofreading it.

        How do i know? Because i doubt "Access&Identity will help us push forward the productivity of all collaborators" was what the team responsible for the prompt wanted to say.

      2. superhuzza · · focus · HN ↗
        He is most definitely a real person, I know people who have written papers with him.
      3. aeve890 · · focus · HN ↗
        >That the name in no slop backwards is too wild to be real, but it's a real person.

        Reverse nominative determinism

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