Hi Todor, Just a couple brief comments on your analysis of the situation of academic or industry researchers, that you give on your web page
First, I find that most good researchers have way, way more ideas than they bother to write up for publications. Writing papers for publication is a pain in many ways, and one tends to choose one's more mainstream and less controversial ideas to write up for publication, to avoid wasting time arguing with referees.... Also there is pressure to write up concrete results (even boring ones) in preference to interesting but unsubstantiated ideas, as the latter are less likely to pass throught refereeing process... The result is that a researcher's publication record is a weirdly distorted sample of their actual research and thinking.... Certainly, what some guy publishes in 2009 may have been thought of in 1985 ... or whenever.... He may have submitted it for publication in 2009 because he thought some particular conference, or journal special issue etc., would be likely to accept it -- or because he thought the time was right, in the sense that there were finally enough other relevant papers to put in the references.... Also, remember, if you're an academic -- even if you come up with an idea by pure common-sense thinking, independently of the research literature, when you write it up for publication you have to basically PRETEND you conceived the idea via varying on prior papers from the research literature.... This doesn't diminish the observation that many of your ideas have been independently arrived at by others. But I think it's a mistake to compare the time of your blogging or informal essay-writing, with the time of someone else's formal publication... There's a pretty broad spectrum of academic/industry researchers out there --- some fully buy into the current academic process as a good way to guide and mediate and filter research; others think the "establishment" research/publication process is crappy or counterproductive, but choose to spend part of their time playing an academic role, because as a way of earning $$, it's less distracting from research than other options... At one point in the middle of grad school I got kinda disgusted with the academic establishment and decided to quit and become an independent researcher.... After a couple months of supporting myself as a telemarketer [the highest paid job I could get at age 18 with a bachelors degree in math and a desire not to sit in an oppressive corporate office] and doing research on the side, I realized this sucked and decided to complete grad school ;) -- Ben G On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Todor Arnaudov <[email protected]> wrote: > Yet another one (in a search of delayed acknowledgment or so): > > > http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2012/12/five-principles-in-developmental.html > > The paper is good. > > > The "matches" series continues. > > -- > ....* Todor "Tosh" Arnaudov ....* > * > .... Twenkid Research:* http://research.twenkid.com > > .... *Self-Improving General Intelligence Conference*: > http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-sigi-2012-1-first-sigi-agi.html > > *.... Todor Arnaudov's Researches Blog**: * > http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
