[D] Statement on Nature Machine Intelligence • r/MachineLearning

I agree with the sentiment but this is also dependent on your field, since there are different cultures regarding both competition and how faculty positions are chosen and get tenured. For example, in many engineering and some physics disciplines, there is a larger tendency to publish open source or to at least put your currently reviewed / published manuscript on arxiv. In biology this tends to be less the case. The "publish or perish" culture exists here as well of course (I work in neuroscience), but it's often more intense and you frequently need to hit a quota of nature/cell/science publications in order to be considered eligible for a postdoc or faculty position. Furthermore, people are less willing to put under-review papers on (bio)arxiv since they're afraid competitors will steal the idea, replicate the results and then do some extra controls or whatever to quickly get the paper into a flashy journal.