James_Miller comments on "Smarter than us" is out! - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 25 February 2014 03:50PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 26 February 2014 08:15:03PM 1 point [-]

This isn't true because publishers will often hire someone to go through all of your footnotes.

Comment author: Nornagest 26 February 2014 09:18:41PM *  1 point [-]

Sure, but that's just editing. Which is one of the basic services of a publisher; they have an interest in catching your mistakes and generally helping you not look stupid, because that sells, but that's not the same thing as being nontrivial evidence of intellectual credibility. Obvious bullshit and pseudoscience gets published all the time, because that sells.

Comment author: James_Miller 27 February 2014 01:01:33AM 1 point [-]

It was a lot more than editing on my last book.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 February 2014 04:47:01PM 1 point [-]

I was hoping the link would be to a description of what your publisher did for you.

Comment author: James_Miller 27 February 2014 04:53:30PM 1 point [-]

Sorry. They hired someone to look at every footnote. If my footnote didn't seem justified this fact checker asked me for justification or had me chance it.