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

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 June 2012 03:52:17PM 6 points [-]

Two small points in favour of publishing:

1) When people do a lit review (especially in such a small field), they have to find your paper and at least pretend to have read it.

2) When you've published enough of these papers, journals will ask you to be reviewers of other papers in the field.

Also, I got into the whole AI issue partially via Nick's writings...