Am fascinated by the almost universal popularity of some philosophy of science ideas that I find completely untenable. Here's my pitch for a worldview: Popper is simply wrong about his most important claims like binary falsification and confirmation, people like Kuhn ...
are more concerned with social implementations of science rather than capital-S Science, and empiricism plus a bayesian view of evidence is basically the correct way to approach truthseeking and is separable from the pitfalls of induction
At neurips and am struck by how electrifying academic gatherings must have felt in the pre-internet world. Scouring posters as your one chance at finding hidden knowledge