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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.
Heh, if you find a poem scrawled in blood on toilet paper, you probably have a higher priority than Science at the moment -- like finding the psycho f---!
But anyway, you half-jest, but this is a problem I've run into myself. Stephan Kinsella has a widely-cited magnum opus opposing intellectual property rights. I have since presented a gaping hole in its logic, which he acknowledges isn't handled well, but doesn't feel the need to resolve this hole in something he's built his reputation around, merely because I didn't get it published in a journal.
Yes, peer review is good crackpot filter, but it can also be a filter from having to admit your errors. [/threadjack]