jimrandomh comments on Reasons for SIAI to not publish in mainstream journals - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 10 April 2011 06:54:32PM *  0 points [-]

It goes both ways, though. Publishing in a journal means inheriting some of its prestige, but also means giving it some of your prestige. Do we want journals that are currently bad to be able to claim to have published papers by high-status rationalists, if those papers are going to be major outliers in quality?

Comment author: JGWeissman 10 April 2011 07:47:06PM 3 points [-]

I disagree, for the reason Gerard explains, and because SIAI can be selective about which journals it publishes in.

But I am not sure why your comment was downvoted. It seems fair to ask the question.

Comment author: David_Gerard 10 April 2011 07:24:48PM *  6 points [-]

Do we want journals that are currently bad to be able to claim to have published papers by high-status rationalists, if those papers are going to be major outliers in quality?

I think we would first need to be sure we had advanced to the stage of being publishable enough to have such problems.