#MachineLearning universe, please heed to this thread.https://twitter.com/nlpmattg/status/1134519817732481024 …
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As I pointed out in the replies, blind review is a hack that tries to fix a broken system (gate-keeping venues). We should find a way to promote all good research regardless of its origin; a way that also avoids delays. Rapid review is part of the solution as
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Is there data that measures the effects on a scientific ecosystem? Ie do we know that scientific institutions get better or worse in the aggregate if a large part is conversation between individual minds rather than benchmarked anonymized contributions?
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Not sure what you mean by "individual minds", but the idea that conference papers at NIPS/ICML etc are "benchmarked" is challenged by the high degree of randomness in the review process.
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I suspect that for the progress of most fields, the contributions of deeply reflecting individuals play a greater role than those of large crowds following a methodology, but I don't know if that's true. Blind review seems to be driven by a strong intuition that it's not.
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