How has publishing your research on LW or X been helpful to you?

A researcher at CBAI reached out to the LessWrong community this week with a question for his colleagues: how has publishing your research on LessWrong or X actually benefited you? Logan Riggs shared his own findings—that while writing research papers demands rigor, turning that work into clear blog posts can pay surprising dividends. His experience: two major research collaborations grew directly from his published posts. One started when he messaged researcher Lee Sharkey about sparse autoencoder work, leading to a co-authored paper; another connection with Thomas Doom led to ongoing collaboration on tensor network interpretability. While Riggs notes that the posts themselves haven't yielded breakthrough feedback, they've opened doors to other researchers in AI safety and aligned fields. He's now crowdsourcing other researchers' stories, hoping to advise fellowship participants about where to invest their publishing energy.

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