AlexMennen comments on How SIAI could publish in mainstream cognitive science journals - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 March 2011 08:03:35PM 8 points [-]

Agree or disagree with the following statement?

"After publishing the paper in a philosophy journal so that academics would be allowed to talk about it without losing face, you would have to write a separate essay to explain the ideas to anyone who actually wanted to know them, including those philosophers."

Comment author: AlexMennen 10 March 2011 10:56:39PM 5 points [-]

I don't know. But even if you are correct, writing papers for the sole purpose of getting SIAI to be taken seriously, rather than actually explaining anything, sounds like a good idea anyway (assuming that it would work and that actually explaining things would not, that is).