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

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Comment author: lukeprog 22 June 2012 12:21:10AM 2 points [-]

On (published) papers as discussion objects: this is why we have preprint servers and discussion lists. Common practice is to discuss draft papers, and to distribute them to interested parties. Publishing is a canonicalization process

Yes, exactly.