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> Anyone else thought that this was very weird? The author appears to be complaining about the fact that reputable people/labs can post a PDF on arXiv and be ta
by denzil_correa 9y ago
> Anyone else thought that this was very weird? The author appears to be complaining about the fact that reputable people/labs can post a PDF on arXiv and be taken seriously. How is this avoidable? Without arXiv, they could just post the PDF on their website or anywhere else.
The issue is "flag planting" : arXiv is one way to do it; the same arguments hold true for other sources but arXiv is used as a canonical example for "flag planting".