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Anyone who declines to talk about interesting material because it's in a blog post, or for that matter, a poem scrawled in blood on toilet paper, is not taking Science seriously. Why should I expect them to have anything important to say if I go to the further trouble of publishing a paper?
I ought to post the decision theory to a thread on /b on 4chan, then try forwarding it around to philosophers who've written on Newcomblike problems. Only the ones who really care about their work would dare to comment on it, and the net quality of discussion would go up. Publishing in a peer-reviewed journal just invites in the riffraff.
Yes, this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but not so tongue-in-cheek that I'm not seriously considering trying it.
Ignoring non-papers claiming to have solved a problem is a good crackpot-avoiding heuristic. What isn't even written up is even less likely worth reading than something with only a few citations that is written up.
If that were really what was going on, not status games, then getting a link to the blog post from a couple of known folk of good reputation - e.g. Nick Bostrom and Gary Drescher - would be enough to tell people that here was something worth a quick glance to find out more.
Now it's worth noting that my whole cynicism here can be falsified if this post gets a couple of links from folk of good reputation, followed by genuinely somewhere-leading discussion which solves open problems or points out new genuine problems.