Re-replying:

• For people who "are extremely busy, and they use "Did they bother to pass peer review?" as a filter for what they choose to read", which specific examples are you thinking of, and how much any of them become nontrivial members of our community, or helped us out in nontrivial ways?

• I'm sure there are people who a) are very smart, b) look impressive on paper, who c) we've contacted about FAI research, and d) have said "I'm not going to pay attention, since this isn't peer reviewed" (or some equivalent). However, I think that for most of those people, that isn't their true rejection (http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/), and they aren't going to take us seriously anyway. But I could be wrong - what evidence do you have in mind?

• A lot of your points are criticisms of blog posts, like "a lot of them don't have citations", or "a lot of them are poorly organized". These are true in many cases. However, if SIAI is considering whether to publish some given idea in paper or blog post form, they could simply spend the (fairly small) effort to write a blog post which was well organized and had citations, thereby making these problems moot.

• Journal editors obviously aren't perfectly analogous to mob bosses. However, I've heard many stories from academics of authors spending huge amounts of time and effort trying to get stuff published. In the most recent case, which I discussed with a grad student just a few hours ago, it took hundreds of hours, over a full year. If it's usually easy to get around that sort of thing, by just publishing in a different journal, why don't more academics do so?