Comment by zackmorris

Comment by zackmorris 3 days ago

I always figured if I wrote a paper, the peer review would be public scrutiny. As in, it would have revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary) innovations that disrupt the status quo. I don't see how blocking that kind of paper from arXiv helps hacker culture in any way, so I oppose their decision.

They should solve the real problem of obtaining more funding and volunteers so that they can take on the increased volume of submissions. Especially now that AI's here and we can all be 3 times as productive for the same effort.

tasuki 3 days ago

That paper wouldn't be blocked. Have you read the thing?

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zackmorris 3 days ago

Before being considered for submission to arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
Huh, I guess it's only a subset of papers, not all of them. My brain doesn't work that way, because I don't like assigning custom rules for special cases (edit: because I usually view that as a form of discrimination). So sometimes I have a blind spot around the realities of a problem that someone is facing, that don't have much to do with its idealization.
What I mean is, I don't know that it's up to arXiv to determine what a "review article and position paper" is. Because of that, they must let all papers through, or have all papers face the same review standards.
When I see someone getting their fingers into something, like muddying/dithering concepts, shifting focus to something other than the crux of an argument (or using bad faith arguments, etc), I view it as corruption. It's a means for minority forces to insert their will over the majority. In this case, by potentially blocking meaningful work from reaching the public eye on a technicality.
So I admit that I was wrong to jump to conclusions. But I don't know that I was wrong in principle or spirit.

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- habinero 2 days ago
  
  > What I mean is, I don't know that it's up to arXiv to determine what a "review article and position paper" is.
  Those are terms of art, not arbitrary categories. They didn't make them up.
  
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raddan 3 days ago

It’s weird to say that you can be three times more efficient at taking down AI slop now that AI is here, given that the problem is exacerbated by AI in the first place. At least without AI authors were forced to actually write the slop themselves…

This does not seem like a win even if your “fight AI with AI plan works.”

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