Viliam_Bur comments on Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 21 June 2012 08:53:58AM 2 points [-]

they would prefer to cite a journal article to a paper published on a website.

This. Once our ideas enter the academic memespace, they may continue to live independently there. The difficult part is crossing the boundary, but it only has to be done once.