[D] The submission process as an independent researcher has been strange but interesting. Here's my advice for other independent researchers.

I just recently submitted my first preprint to arXi as an independent researcher, and the process has been labyrinthine yet also straight forward. Each individual step has been fairly easy to understand and complete, but understanding which steps I actually need to go through took some time. I see all the time from researchers in the field how they get these cold emails that basically are like "I'm a random person who figured out AGI, hit me up