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CompSci Lecturer. Go player. Programming language researcher. Idris hacker. Denies knowledge of Whitespace. He/him. http://tinyurl.com/TypeDD 

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    Edwin Brady‏ @edwinbrady 29 Aug 2018
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    Edwin Brady Retweeted Michael Hicks

    Not that it was influential, but I once had a review saying "Reject. This idea seems so obvious that I can't believe it hasn't been done before." Thanks! (it was accepted...)https://twitter.com/michael_w_hicks/status/1034861675957166080?s=19 …

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    Michael Hicks @michael_w_hicks
    Hypothesis: A certain class of papers accepted with middling scores are more influential than papers with high scores precisely for the reason reviewers only sorta liked them: they are so understandable they seem obvious (but weren’t before reading).
    3:38 PM - 29 Aug 2018
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    • Michael Vollmer Alonzo C-137 Michael Hicks SH∀∃ ∃RISSON ☠ Cameron Alexander Bodil Stokke, Esq. ALL HAIL DISCORDIA 🥑 Alvaro Videla Pozorvlak
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      2. Kristopher Micinski‏ @krismicinski 29 Aug 2018
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        wait was that the whole review because if so that really is pretty epic.

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      3. Edwin Brady‏ @edwinbrady 29 Aug 2018
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        There was more, but that's the only bit I remember :).

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      1. Ian Gent‏ @turingfan 29 Aug 2018
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        Yep, I got one like that too. But it was rejected. For the next version we did improve the work but also we made the explanation of it less good so it seemed less obvious.

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      2. Pozorvlak‏ @pozorvlak 30 Aug 2018
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        @DRMacIver wrote a good post about this problem a while back: https://www.drmaciver.com/2018/02/novelty-requires-explanation/ …

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      3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 30 Aug 2018
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        I've heard this ancedote from @EdwinBrady before and I just had to double check it wasn't what prompted me to write that post. ;-) (it wasn't. The timeline doesn't work out - the post is from a few months earlier)

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      1. Tran Ma (≧△≦)‏ @trannosaurusma 29 Aug 2018
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        Captain Obvious in research are the best scientists

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      1. Marcello Seri‏ @marcelloseri 30 Aug 2018
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        We had a similar review saying that “there must be some obscure Russian paper where the idea was developed in 70s”. The paper was rejected, but for the best: it is now published in a much better journal

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      1. Nicholas Peterson‏ @Aggregreat 29 Aug 2018
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        I can imagine a meme of the covers of famous papers with red ink stating how obvious and uninteresting they are.

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