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64 Post author: lukeprog 09 March 2011 09:17PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 10 March 2011 12:02:05AM *  3 points [-]

The quick upvoting suggests people are interested in this. If people have more questions about how to write a publishable philosophy paper, I'm happy to take them.

Comment author: grouchymusicologist 10 March 2011 01:18:57AM 12 points [-]

The advice looks great (and I say that as an academic in a field whose professional structure is not that different from philosophy).

Frankly, I think people are upvoting it so much not only because it's a very good post, but because they really wish that SIAI would take your advice and do all this stuff.

Comment author: AlexMennen 10 March 2011 06:31:50PM 2 points [-]

Yes. Considering how hard SIAI is trying to get taken seriously by the mainstream academic community, you'd think that they would already be doing this.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 March 2011 08:06:39PM 10 points [-]

Simply put, we don't have anyone who can except Carl Shulman and myself. I'm busy writing a book. I think Carl actually is doing papers but I'm not sure this is his highest-priority subject.

It might be that hiring a real professor to supervise would enable us to get this sort of work out of a postdoc going through the Visiting Fellows program, but that itself is not easy.