Let's be real, there are a lot of papers in AI right now because it's been hot, not just recently but for years. Still, no one is reading random papers from ins

Let's be real, there are a lot of papers in AI right now because it's been hot, not just recently but for years. Still, no one is reading random papers from insert-unknown-group-here. People read papers from already established scientists who have pedigree. And, how did they become established? Because they actually published before arxiv. In that sense, peer review should be an equalizer, because the only way to be read and cited then is to have the holy academic lineage, which is what would happen if we abolished peer-review as it exists in the current academic word we're in.