M. Y. Zuo comments on Peter Thiel’s speech at Oxford Debating Union on technological stagnation, Nuclear weapons, COVID, Environment, Alignment, ‘anti-anti anti-anti-classical liberalism’, Bostrom, LW, etc.

[M. Y. Zuo]

When you send a paper to a journal, that journal does ask itself “Is this paper useful to the people who read this journal and helps advance the field or is it pointless for the readers of the journal to read it.”

If that was the case, the suggestion to change the process of producing science would be pointless, because science would already work that way.

Can you elaborate on this?

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If only real-world-useful science was published in journals, it would be pointless to suggest that only real-world-useful science should be produced.