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klawed | 5 years ago

“Lumpers vs Splitters” is itself a splitting or a lumping?

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smichel17|5 years ago

Lumping, for sure. There's people in the middle who recognize the difference between rap and jazz, but not the different variants within.

asdfasgasdgasdg|5 years ago

This is a special case of the observation that no discretization of a continuous space is "correct". They are inherently subjective, and some may be more useful for any given purpose than others.

jonny_eh|5 years ago

Reminds me of a common review trope: "When it comes to X, people either love it or hate it, I'm somewhere in the middle"