[BaronSamedi]

Lumpers vs Splitters is a fun categorization. When I see a group of things categorized I view it as a set partition and I wonder what equivalence relation is being used to distinguish the partitions (categories). The relation is usually unstated so it becomes a mental exercise to steelman the categorization by trying to think of one.

[klawed]

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

[smichel17]

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

[asdfasgasdgasdg]

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]

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"

[swyx]

to mangle Jim Barksdale: there are only 2 ways to create insights - bundling ideas or unbundling them.