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> And today, the idea marketplace does not need to be mediated by conferences and papers. You could say that posting to HN is a form of peer review (in the vai
by exelius 11y ago
> And today, the idea marketplace does not need to be mediated by conferences and papers.
You could say that posting to HN is a form of peer review (in the vain you mention it at least). Anyone is free to comment and tear the author's article apart.
- norswap 11y agoBut then the review themselves get reviewed, and those get reviewed, etc In the end you get a rough global consensus. It's far (very far) from perfect, but maybe more representative of impact than the opinion 3 guys deeply embedded in a system that doesn't exchange with the outside world enough, and that are often competing with you.