Strings 2025 conference: topology change, matrix models, and AdS/CFT

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mitchell porter said:
An anonymous string theorist ("Stringmaster") showed up at Peter Woit's blog to state an abbreviated version of what they think this century's progress in string theory has been about:

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15348#comment-252759

To me, the prose looks like it's been funneled through an AI (perhaps English isn't the author's first language). Anyway, I think this list of talking points is genuinely representative of how mainstream string theorists think about the state of their subject, if anyone is interested. The potentially empirical part is in points 3 and 4.
Good catch.