to make people weigh whether to publish or not, because I think some people are not weighing this enough
to give some arguments in favor of “you might be systematically overestimating the utility of publishing”, because I think some people are doing that
I agree people should take the utilitalianly optimal action, I just think they’re doing the utilitarian calculus wrong or not doing the calculus at all.
I am a utilitarian and agree with your comment.
The intent of the post was
to make people weigh whether to publish or not, because I think some people are not weighing this enough
to give some arguments in favor of “you might be systematically overestimating the utility of publishing”, because I think some people are doing that
I agree people should take the utilitalianly optimal action, I just think they’re doing the utilitarian calculus wrong or not doing the calculus at all.