Rhwawn comments on Posts I repent of - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Will_Newsome 20 March 2012 05:29AM

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Comment author: Rhwawn 21 March 2012 01:39:12AM 0 points [-]

This suggests giving yourself longer a mandatory editing period between writing a post and actually publishing it.

Yes. In sociology of science, there's apparently something called the 'equal-odds rule' which says that for a given scientist, you can't predict which of their publications will be the great publication, with no real effect of quality vs quantity - so it's probably a good idea to just publish as much as you can that passes your basic bar. (Which doesn't mean you should be sloppy about it, just means write a lot and let the ideas age like a fine wine.)