The people at NeurIPS who reviewed the paper might notice if resubmission occurred elsewhere? Automated tools might help with this, by searching for specific phrases.
There’s been talk of having a Journal of Infohazards. Seems like an idea worth exploring to me. Your suggestion sounds like a much more feasible first step.
Problem: Any entity with halfway decent hacking skills (such as a national government, or clever criminal) would be able to peruse the list of infohazardy titles, look up the authors, cyberstalk them, and then hack into their personal computer and steal the files. We could hope that people would take precautions against this, but I’m not very optimistic. That said, this still seems better than the status quo.
The people at NeurIPS who reviewed the paper might notice if resubmission occurred elsewhere? Automated tools might help with this, by searching for specific phrases.
There’s been talk of having a Journal of Infohazards. Seems like an idea worth exploring to me. Your suggestion sounds like a much more feasible first step.
Problem: Any entity with halfway decent hacking skills (such as a national government, or clever criminal) would be able to peruse the list of infohazardy titles, look up the authors, cyberstalk them, and then hack into their personal computer and steal the files. We could hope that people would take precautions against this, but I’m not very optimistic. That said, this still seems better than the status quo.