First, my notes are not nearly well-organized enough to have any kind of coherence for anyone but me. Do you think it's interesting for me to answer public que

First, my notes are not nearly well-organized enough to have any kind of coherence for anyone but me. Do you think it's interesting for me to answer public questions, to defend ideas that I haven't even completely thought through yet? But secondly, why would I want to publish my half-baked, unproven ideas? I can see two possible outcomes: (1) I completely embarrass myself because they are stupid ideas that I haven't verified, or (2) they are good ideas and someone takes them and runs faster than I can and beats me to a result. I see zero advantage for me to do what you say. I think this idea of let's do every step of science 100% in the open are completely forgetting that science is a social process. Putting things out there has consequences. The onus is on the scientist to verify things before saying them. There is a word for "scientists" who do not. Personally I don't believe that that is something that will change in the next 100 years.