I continue to think that there aren’t many benefits to a journal (yet).
But we can also look at past examples—there’s the AGI journal, in which some past safety work has been published. I have heard safety people saying things like “oh, that was published at AGI, it’s probably not worth reading”, and others saying “yeah, if you can’t get your work into a real conference, then send it to AGI so that it’s published somewhere”. (Not going to name names for the obvious reasons.) Doesn’t seem like a great precedent.
Thanks for the feedback. I didn’t know about the AGI journal, that’s a good point.
If we only try to provide publicly available feedback to safety researchers, including new ones, do you think that this proposal makes sense as a first step?
Yeah, I think that system makes sense as a way to address that goal (and does seem particularly valuable for new entrants). I’m at least interested enough to try it as an experiment.
I continue to think that there aren’t many benefits to a journal (yet).
But we can also look at past examples—there’s the AGI journal, in which some past safety work has been published. I have heard safety people saying things like “oh, that was published at AGI, it’s probably not worth reading”, and others saying “yeah, if you can’t get your work into a real conference, then send it to AGI so that it’s published somewhere”. (Not going to name names for the obvious reasons.) Doesn’t seem like a great precedent.
Thanks for the feedback. I didn’t know about the AGI journal, that’s a good point.
If we only try to provide publicly available feedback to safety researchers, including new ones, do you think that this proposal makes sense as a first step?
Yeah, I think that system makes sense as a way to address that goal (and does seem particularly valuable for new entrants). I’m at least interested enough to try it as an experiment.