Pedro Domingos

Anima, please stop insulting people, and please stop trying to dictate your agenda to the machine learning community. Enough is enough!

searching for neurips online leads consistently to things related to the conference, whereas its previous name led to all sorts of things. I don't see how neurips is "clunky" and "confusion-promoting"

It's harder to pronounce, write and remember (just ask non-native English speakers), and it means the same conference is referred to by different acronyms in different years.

I find it hard to see any confusion with @NeurIPSConf. It confuses me why anyone would be willing to stick to an acronym that belittles and humiliates part of our community.

Pedro, I have great respect for your research but the NeurIPS name change was a great idea, necessary and correct to do.

Reasonable people can disagree on this. The majority of the NIPS community agrees with me. Sadly, the board caved in to Anima's bullying and chose to ignore it.

I am much more excited about NeurIPS under the name change. For one, it seems way easier to google without getting a bunch of unwanted sexually-charged results. For another, those "joking" T-shirts would make the event incredibly uncomfortable for me. Think beyond yourself!

Try googling NIPS before saying that. And in all the years I've attended NIPS I've never seen such a T-shirt.