metauni

Obviously Deep Mind/Isomorphic have commercial interests… but they need not seek the faux legitimacy of a Nature paper absent the transparency essential for vetting. And Nature wants to abandon their policies to game their impact factor and steal cheap attention with what will be a clear citation outlier. While I would have made different choices on both sides, AF3 has a better chance than most things of reuse informing rigor/utility rather than the opinions of editors or reviewers upon first read. We don’t need journals to tell us what to think, especially for things like this. Let’s stop giving them this power or trying to fix them to get to a slightly less [but still absurd] proxy for quality