Re: Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 13 April 2013 23:42, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/13/13, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote:

>> My basic observation here is that inclusionism/deletionism debates
>> seem intractable, like religion and politics, which have long been
>> correlated with a variety of mental and neurological observations and
>> this deep-seated roots of those beliefs seems to explain why politics
>> is so wasteful and damaging; hence the obvious question becomes, is
>> inclusionism/deletionism another such case?

> I think there is actually a sensible middle ground, which gets lost
> because those with more extreme views are more vocal. That is similar
> to politics in a way. And why would you think that
> inclusionism/deletionism debates are intractable? I thought the idea
> that such terms should be avoided (as they are divisive) was taking
> hold and gaining ground?


I'm broadly an inclusionist, but by crikey there's a lot of utter,
utter shit on the wiki. I've been nominating hopeless shite lately,
for AFD or even just PROD. Not much, you understand. I can give it up
any time.


- d.

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