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Epictetus comments on Are conferences an inefficient/terrible discussion forum (in addition to academic papers)? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Epictetus 04 June 2015 09:54:12PM 7 points [-]

My understanding is that the real benefit to conferences is getting all the experts together in one place and giving them time to socialize and catch up on what the others are doing.