Other communities should be moving to AF style publication, not the other way around. This is how science should be communicated; it has all the virtues of peer review without the massive downsides.
I just moved from neuroscience to publishing on LessWrong. The publishing structure here is far superior to a journal on the whole. Waiting for peer review instead of getting it in comments is an insane slowdown on the exchange of ideas.
Journal articles are discussed by experts in private. Blog posts are discussed in public in the comments. The difference in amount of analysis shared per amount of time is massive.
Issues like mathematical or other rigor are separate issues. Having tags and other sorting systems to distinguish long and rigorous work from quick writeups of simple ideas, points, and results would allow the best of both worlds.
Furthermore, we have known this for some time. In about 2003 exactly this type of publishing was suggested for neuroscience, for the above reasons—and as a way to give credit for review work. Neuroscience won’t switch to it because of cultural lock-in. Don’t give up your great good fortune in not being stuck in an antique system.
I must admit confusion, and a quick googling does not alleviate it; For those of us outside of academia, what exactly do you mean by “AF style publication”?
Sorry for the obscure reference. Alignment Forum is the professional variant of Less Wrong. It has membership by invitation only, which means you can trust the votes and comments to be better informed, and from real people and not fake accounts.
Other communities should be moving to AF style publication, not the other way around. This is how science should be communicated; it has all the virtues of peer review without the massive downsides.
I just moved from neuroscience to publishing on LessWrong. The publishing structure here is far superior to a journal on the whole. Waiting for peer review instead of getting it in comments is an insane slowdown on the exchange of ideas.
Journal articles are discussed by experts in private. Blog posts are discussed in public in the comments. The difference in amount of analysis shared per amount of time is massive.
Issues like mathematical or other rigor are separate issues. Having tags and other sorting systems to distinguish long and rigorous work from quick writeups of simple ideas, points, and results would allow the best of both worlds.
Furthermore, we have known this for some time. In about 2003 exactly this type of publishing was suggested for neuroscience, for the above reasons—and as a way to give credit for review work. Neuroscience won’t switch to it because of cultural lock-in. Don’t give up your great good fortune in not being stuck in an antique system.
I must admit confusion, and a quick googling does not alleviate it;
For those of us outside of academia, what exactly do you mean by “AF style publication”?
Sorry for the obscure reference. Alignment Forum is the professional variant of Less Wrong. It has membership by invitation only, which means you can trust the votes and comments to be better informed, and from real people and not fake accounts.
AF: Alignment Forum