There’s nothing that explicitly prevents people from distilling such discussions into subsequent posts or papers. If people aren’t doing that, or are doing that less than they should, that could potentially be solved as a problem that’s separate from “should more people be doing FP or traditional research?”
Agreed. I’m mostly saying that empirically people don’t do that, but yes there could be other solutions to the problem, it need not be inherent to FP.
Also, it’s not clear to me that traditional research produces more clear distillations of how disagreements get resolved.
I agree you don’t see how the disagreement gets resolved, but you usually can see the answer to the question that prompted the disagreement, because the resolution itself can be turned into a paper. This is assuming that the resolution came via new evidence. I agree that if a disagreement is resolved via simply talking through the arguments, then it doesn’t turn into a paper, but this seems pretty rare (at least in CS).
Agreed. I’m mostly saying that empirically people don’t do that, but yes there could be other solutions to the problem, it need not be inherent to FP.
I agree you don’t see how the disagreement gets resolved, but you usually can see the answer to the question that prompted the disagreement, because the resolution itself can be turned into a paper. This is assuming that the resolution came via new evidence. I agree that if a disagreement is resolved via simply talking through the arguments, then it doesn’t turn into a paper, but this seems pretty rare (at least in CS).