gwern comments on Journal of Consciousness Studies issue on the Singularity - Less Wrong

14 Post author: lukeprog 02 March 2012 03:56PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 March 2012 09:04:40PM 3 points [-]

What a terrible paper altogether. This was a peer-reviewed journal, right?

Some things even peer-review can't cure. I looked through a few of their back-issues and was far from impressed. On the other hand, this ranking puts them above Topoi, Nous, and Ethics. I'm not even sure what that means -- maybe their scale is broken?

Comment author: gwern 02 March 2012 09:11:38PM 3 points [-]

Maybe there's some confounding factor - like sudden recent interest in Singularity/transhumanist topics forcing the cite count up?

Comment author: Jesper_Ostman 13 March 2012 05:18:51PM 0 points [-]

Unlikely, they have been highly ranked for a long time and singularity/transhumanist topics are only a very small part of what JCS covers.