Ben here -- you may be amused to know that Alan Sokal was my dad's freshman room...

Stratoscope · 2025-10-03T02:51:01.000000Z

Ben, as in Benjamin Spector? (As noted below by sciurus.)

Please accept my sheepish apology for taking an unwarranted potshot at your writing style.

OTOH, if I hadn't, none of us would have known about that remarkable connection!

Stratoscope · 2025-10-02T20:52:38.000000Z

Awesome! We truly have Transgressed the Boundaries.

(And I'm curious... The way you said "Ben here" makes me wonder if I know you?)

sciurus · 2025-10-03T02:04:08.000000Z

(I think we was just introducing himself as Ben Spector, the lead author of the paper.)

Stratoscope · 2025-10-03T02:47:57.000000Z

D'oh! Thank you, and now I owe Ben an apology.