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Many if not most of the readers are grad students. Arguably they're the people who pay that indirectly in increased tuition fees.

Reputable quality bar isn't the right metric. Quality is a better metric. To the extent it can be estimated, impact is another. Neither of these require journals specifically. A di…

What prevents AI scrapers from continuing to scrape sites that contain a tag but not follow the bad links?

A different way to not require journals to be the arbiters of quality is to let the truth itself be the arbiter of quality instead of designate gatekeepers. 1. Open peer-review to …

Peer-review can also occur from non-gatekeepers, from non-experts. You realize you posted this on a massively open and public publication system, right? Non-experts sometimes bring…

I built something like this but it didn't get users. Replying to an author for the valuable info they posted would pay the author and it also accepted public payments. An AI or sea…

Working on understanding why this thread gets hundreds of comments and upvotes while threads with the same name posted by other users don't get this much engagement. https://news.y…

Sorry, I tried. If you want to have good things you have to use them when you first see them.

Can you share more about why it's hard to submit the preprint for review unless its first published somewhere? Wouldn't you be able to submit the preprint directly to whichever con…

> share any non-mainstream thought and your replies are full of haters This may be a failure of the platform protocol. I wish the protocol was: [phrase-redacted]. Grok ranking peop…

Newspapers charge. How-to guides sell. I paid for education.

Compare work you did earlier with work you did later. Is one better than the other? If so, does it mean there is such a thing as "quality"?

Thank you for sharing this opinion. AI != LLMs. A future version of better AI might become capable of saying "I don't know." The mess of figuring out what the facts are, in a way, …

> This website is full of unthinking drones acting with hive mind behavior Maybe not "full", statistically, but many times I receive a similar impression.

> Just don't pretend that it's for our benefit or that we downvote it because we're unthinking drones The reason many comments are downvoted on HN in general is most often unknown …