Why not just make an academic journal, identify some alignment researchers who frequently use LW and have PhDs, then aggregate their karma over month-long time slices, call that the “review”, and then publish an edition every month? Maybe the authors would need to clean up their work a bit.
This seems easier to implement than (the good version of) my idea.
I wouldn’t want to require PhDs. I think most of the best contributors to LW don’t have PhDs—I can think of at least one who doesn’t even have a high school diploma, although he doesn’t post too often these days. Although having a “LW journal” with a PhD requirement seems better than not having one at all.
Why not just make an academic journal, identify some alignment researchers who frequently use LW and have PhDs, then aggregate their karma over month-long time slices, call that the “review”, and then publish an edition every month? Maybe the authors would need to clean up their work a bit.
This seems easier to implement than (the good version of) my idea.
I wouldn’t want to require PhDs. I think most of the best contributors to LW don’t have PhDs—I can think of at least one who doesn’t even have a high school diploma, although he doesn’t post too often these days. Although having a “LW journal” with a PhD requirement seems better than not having one at all.
The PhDs are the reviewers, not the authors.