I’m curious as to why this is only at 3 upvotes. Do people feel that the content is too obvious? Irrelevant? Badly argued? (The mere 9 upvotes of my previous paper draft also felt a bit puzzling—after all the commentary about “LWers should publish in peer-reviewed journals”, I would have expected more.)
Pardon me. I confess I just hadn’t got around to reading your paper yet. Because there is some element of reading papers that feels like work. And lesswrong often tends to occupy the ‘procrastination’ element of my schedule. I am likely to only read a large article or paper if brief comments in reply to the article catch my attention and I am prompted to catch up on the context to see if I agree.
I’ll now remember to just upvote paper drafts on site because the act of writing papers is praiseworthy. (If it turns out the paper is terrible I can go back and adjust the vote.)
Do people feel that the content is too obvious? Irrelevant? Badly argued? (The mere 9 upvotes of my previous paper draft also felt a bit puzzling—after all the commentary about “LWers should publish in peer-reviewed journals”, I would have expected more.)
Yes, obvious. Which isn’t to say too obvious. It is a paper that needs to be written and bravo for doing it. But it isn’t something that is going to blow my mind and I can sort of take for granted that you mentioned the relevant details and think “paper written about exocortexes, check”.
I’m curious as to why this is only at 3 upvotes. Do people feel that the content is too obvious? Irrelevant? Badly argued? (The mere 9 upvotes of my previous paper draft also felt a bit puzzling—after all the commentary about “LWers should publish in peer-reviewed journals”, I would have expected more.)
Pardon me. I confess I just hadn’t got around to reading your paper yet. Because there is some element of reading papers that feels like work. And lesswrong often tends to occupy the ‘procrastination’ element of my schedule. I am likely to only read a large article or paper if brief comments in reply to the article catch my attention and I am prompted to catch up on the context to see if I agree.
I’ll now remember to just upvote paper drafts on site because the act of writing papers is praiseworthy. (If it turns out the paper is terrible I can go back and adjust the vote.)
Yes, obvious. Which isn’t to say too obvious. It is a paper that needs to be written and bravo for doing it. But it isn’t something that is going to blow my mind and I can sort of take for granted that you mentioned the relevant details and think “paper written about exocortexes, check”.