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Step 1: Sign the Nature boycott.

Step 2: Get boycott popular. Less people submitted to Nature.

Step 3: Submit to Nature. Accepted due to less competition.

This is a News and Views piece, published in the journal Nature, about a paper in Nat. Mach. Int. The distinction is important.

That is an important distinction, but in this case the problem still applies.

The boycott doesn't apply to Nature, and arguably doesn't apply to non-publication writing like News and Views. Rather the boycott is of Nature Machine Intelligence, and the first author of the underlying paper in NMI is a signatory on the boycott list.

We are talking about the paper this news piece is talking about.

Step 4: ???

Step 5: Profit!!

Step 4: Increased h-index

Step 5: You get tenure and more grants

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