@whitequark weird cognitive biases, maybe. Maybe because I'm terrible with names all the time, and they have a much much weaker associative weight in my mind, than the actual work and ideas of a person.

Fun fact about me: I really, really struggled in math class, because I couldn't make a solid connection between some person's name and e.g. a series they formulated. Like Cauchy series.

@whitequark @datenwolf from my observations so far: legacy maintenance of a previous identity, difficulties with scaling (if system has many members), perceived insignificance (especially for median systems)