[oldesthacker]

> Isn't that exercising political capital?

These are very good points.

> ... the worst of many abusers of the citation system.

Is this ad hominem argument by user "lacker" meant to distract from the omissions of the awardees Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun? Especially the first two got tons of citations for work that should have credited Schmidhuber's lab: the analysis of vanishing gradients in neural networks, the principle of generative adversarial networks, attention in neural networks, distilling neural networks, speech recognition with LSTM neural networks, self-supervised pre-training, and more.

The disputes with LeCun are more recent and of lesser magnitude IMO.