whoops, I also posted a whole question about this and forgot I’d actually hit send on the comment on the open thread. Can you move your reply over there and I’ll also do so?
but my reply is,
attention isn’t binary. Giving a paper more attention because I think it is very powerful could still be a spark that gets it to spread much faster, if the folks who’ve seen it don’t realize how powerful it is yet. This is extremely common; mere combinations of papers are often enough for the abstract of the obvious followup to nearly write itself in the heads of competent researchers. In general, the most competent capabilities researchers do not announce paper lists from the rooftops for this reason—they try to build the followup and then they announce that. In general I don’t think I am being watched by many high competence folks, and the ones who are, probably simply explore the internet manually the same way I do. But it’s something that I always have in mind, and occasionally I see a paper that really raises my hackles.
whoops, I also posted a whole question about this and forgot I’d actually hit send on the comment on the open thread. Can you move your reply over there and I’ll also do so?
but my reply is,
attention isn’t binary. Giving a paper more attention because I think it is very powerful could still be a spark that gets it to spread much faster, if the folks who’ve seen it don’t realize how powerful it is yet. This is extremely common; mere combinations of papers are often enough for the abstract of the obvious followup to nearly write itself in the heads of competent researchers. In general, the most competent capabilities researchers do not announce paper lists from the rooftops for this reason—they try to build the followup and then they announce that. In general I don’t think I am being watched by many high competence folks, and the ones who are, probably simply explore the internet manually the same way I do. But it’s something that I always have in mind, and occasionally I see a paper that really raises my hackles.