Institutions for exchanging information (especially research) also seem helpful to me. For instance, many researchers circulate their work in semi-private google docs but only publish some of their work academically or on the Forum. (Sometimes, this is because of information hazards, but only rarely.) This makes it harder for new or less well-networked researchers to get up to speed with existing work. It also doesn’t scale well as the community grows. It would be great if there were easy ways to make content public more easily. Wei Dai made a suggestion in this direction, and I bet there are further ways of making this happen.
Explicitly defined publication norms could also be helpful. It’s often unclear how one should deal with information hazards, which seems to cause people to err on the side of not publishing their work. Instead, one could set up things like “info hazard peer review” or agree more explicitly on rules in the direction of “for issues around X and Y, or other potential info hazards, ask at least five peers from different orgs on whether to publish” (of course, this needs some more work).
Institutions for exchanging information (especially research) also seem helpful to me. For instance, many researchers circulate their work in semi-private google docs but only publish some of their work academically or on the Forum. (Sometimes, this is because of information hazards, but only rarely.) This makes it harder for new or less well-networked researchers to get up to speed with existing work. It also doesn’t scale well as the community grows. It would be great if there were easy ways to make content public more easily. Wei Dai made a suggestion in this direction, and I bet there are further ways of making this happen.
Explicitly defined publication norms could also be helpful. It’s often unclear how one should deal with information hazards, which seems to cause people to err on the side of not publishing their work. Instead, one could set up things like “info hazard peer review” or agree more explicitly on rules in the direction of “for issues around X and Y, or other potential info hazards, ask at least five peers from different orgs on whether to publish” (of course, this needs some more work).