Comment by thaumasiotes
4 hours ago
> In science and math, too often only the final result gets credited or published.
> Maybe we should start crediting and publishing our intermediate results and attempts.
All mathematical results are "intermediate results". What would it mean for something to be a final result?
I think "final" here just means the unit that currently gets treated as publishable and credit-worthy: a theorem with a proof, a solved conjecture, a completed paper, etc
Then it's circular: "only the units that are publishable are published"
If it's not worth publishing, it's not a result at all. That being said, the problem really is that since LLMs excel at sifting through piles or papers, publishing more would aggravate the problem instead of alleviating it.