I think you’re underestimating the status arguments in favour of publishing in journals. Status games are really really really influential in our world. We ignore them at our peril.
It goes both ways, though. Publishing in a journal means inheriting some of its prestige, but also means giving it some of your prestige. Do we want journals that are currently bad to be able to claim to have published papers by high-status rationalists, if those papers are going to be major outliers in quality?
Do we want journals that are currently bad to be able to claim to have published papers by high-status rationalists, if those papers are going to be major outliers in quality?
I think we would first need to be sure we had advanced to the stage of being publishable enough to have such problems.
I think you’re underestimating the status arguments in favour of publishing in journals. Status games are really really really influential in our world. We ignore them at our peril.
It goes both ways, though. Publishing in a journal means inheriting some of its prestige, but also means giving it some of your prestige. Do we want journals that are currently bad to be able to claim to have published papers by high-status rationalists, if those papers are going to be major outliers in quality?
I think we would first need to be sure we had advanced to the stage of being publishable enough to have such problems.
I disagree, for the reason Gerard explains, and because SIAI can be selective about which journals it publishes in.
But I am not sure why your comment was downvoted. It seems fair to ask the question.