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xyelos··on The Biases of Wikipedia and Moderators Today
Sanger has some really great ideas, apparently. From his linked ballotpedia article on neutrality:

> "A disputed topic is treated neutrally if each viewpoint about it is not asserted but rather presented (1) as sympathetically as possible, bearing in mind that other, competing views must be represented as well, and (2) with an equitable amount of space being allotted to each, whatever that might be."

Because, yes, we should definitely give as much space to viewpoints that the earth is flat as to those that say the earth is round.

xyelos··on On Scaling Mental Models
Uhh quick limiting thing here (although I agree that the addition symbol is fine): the existence of a unifying math concept alone does not justify using the "+" symbol. By that argument, notating permutation conjugation with a "+" is fine, but that would be a notational sin as the "+" operator is reserved for commutative operations.

However, with that disclaimer, noting that both operations form monoids and both are commutative justifies the "+".

xyelos··on Bacteria can 'outsmart' programmed cell death
themselves or themcellves? ;)

Thank you for posting this clarification--I was definitely a bit clickbaited by the article, but it,'s interesting nonetheless.