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shminux comments on LW should go into mainstream academia ? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 13 May 2015 04:41:33PM 8 points [-]

Which parts of academia? There is zero experimental research that is up to any academic standards, There is no numerical modeling in any areas that I can think of. There is some foundational AI alignment work which is mostly math and any interesting results there will likely be published. There are some interesting philosophical ideas, I suppose, not sure if they are good enough to be published in academic journals. There is plenty of "raising the sanity waterline" efforts, but those hardly qualify as research. What am I missing?

Comment author: FrameBenignly 13 May 2015 04:56:05PM 1 point [-]

LessWrong doesn't use academic terminology for a lot of things, so translation could be an issue. There have been a couple of posts featuring academic quality experimental research. Of course most of those were concurrently being published.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 14 May 2015 04:31:50PM 3 points [-]

LessWrong doesn't use academic terminology for a lot of things, so translation could be an issue.

That's an understatement.