LW itself isn’t an organisation. It’s a blog. There are associated organisations such as MIRI, CFAR and FHI. There are also a bunch of members of LW who do publish academic papers.
To the extend that we have working debiasing methods as far as I understand CFAR is supposed to formalize these and publish studies to show that they work.
MIRI does publish more papers than it used to do.
If you think that an idea on LW that isn’t in academia should be in academia, you can also see that as your mission. Write an academic article to present the idea.
This is old and it seems like it was a bit controversial, but lukeprog wrote a post with some reasons that publishing in mainstream academia might be suboptimal: Reasons for SIAI to not publish in mainstream journals
LW itself isn’t an organisation. It’s a blog. There are associated organisations such as MIRI, CFAR and FHI. There are also a bunch of members of LW who do publish academic papers.
To the extend that we have working debiasing methods as far as I understand CFAR is supposed to formalize these and publish studies to show that they work.
MIRI does publish more papers than it used to do.
If you think that an idea on LW that isn’t in academia should be in academia, you can also see that as your mission. Write an academic article to present the idea.
MIRI self publishes if I’m not wrong.
Why not publish in mainstream academia ?
You are wrong, MIRI doesn’t only self publish: https://intelligence.org/all-publications/ There are multiple journal articles and conference papers in the list.
Indeed, I stand corrected.
I still find a rather big amount of self-published articles in this list. I find the idea of self-publishing articles to be a bit self-defeating :/
This is old and it seems like it was a bit controversial, but lukeprog wrote a post with some reasons that publishing in mainstream academia might be suboptimal: Reasons for SIAI to not publish in mainstream journals
There is no dichotomy here: it is possible to both keep blogs and publish in mainstream journals.