paper-machine comments on SIAI vs. FHI achievements, 2008-2010 - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 25 September 2011 11:42AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 25 September 2011 04:21:36PM *  9 points [-]

The advantage of academic papers over HPMoR and the sequences is that other people can cite academic papers and be taken seriously.

EDIT: Again, the influence of HPMoR and the sequences is horrifically terrible to quantify. Perhaps there's some availability bias going on here in that citations are easier to count than converts.