François CholletVerified account

Put differently: shouldn't the research & publication system prioritize *the speed of progress* rather than I would call "academic drama"?

An important point of @yoavgo's post is that MPUs w/ poor eval and overblown claims doesn't speed up progress, and in fact gets in the way.

Furthermore there is little cost to flooding the system. Unlike, say, a mathematician who regularly posts proofs eventually shown incorrect.

It's worth considering whether we, as a community, are doing work that isn't even wrong.https://twitter.com/jasonbaldridge/status/873543431716339712 …

Looks to me that it is precisely academic drama (e.g. the pursuit of citations & credit taking at all costs) that leads to meaningless work

People who post half-baked papers with misleading claims on arxiv to by-pass peer review & be "first" do so because of poor incentives

That's definitely part of it. But it could also be they just don't know any better & were in fact proud of it.

Yoav may not have been diplomatic, but his concern seems to be that leading to echo chamber of poor research that drowns out better work.