eli_sennesh comments on Siren worlds and the perils of over-optimised search - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 May 2014 06:03:11PM 0 points [-]

Now you're just dissembling on the meaning of the word "research", which was clearly used in this context as "literature search".

Comment author: Jiro 14 May 2014 08:22:42PM *  4 points [-]

The idea is not to put it in a journal, but to make it public. You can certainly publish, in that sense, the results of a literature search. The point is to put it where people other than yourself can see it. It would certainly be informative if you were to post, even here, something saying "I looked up X claim and I found it in the literature under Y".