Constant comments on Costs and Benefits of Scholarship - Less Wrong

40 Post author: lukeprog 22 March 2011 02:19AM

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Comment author: MBlume 23 March 2011 11:53:22PM *  5 points [-]

I've spent quite a bit of money on scholarship: on gas for trips to a university library so I can download papers from behind the paywall,[...]

This is, of course, obviously and objectively evil (or about as close as it's possible to get). Any LWers care to start a Scholars Bay?

(or at least some private IRC channel where LWers with paywall keys can share them with those without)

Comment author: gwern 24 March 2011 02:43:29AM 4 points [-]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange is an existing forum for pretty much this as long as you edit Wikipedia a little. I've used it in the past effectually, on both ends.

(Wikipedia gets so much traffic that it would be very useful for LessWrongers to try to spread the academic citations we've found most useful through relevant WP articles.)