Talk:The Centipede's Dilemma

On helping this article become notable
I am not sure the current references help much, there is not indication that these meet guidelines as reliable, per the WP:RS policy (click the blue link to learn more). Of more concern to me is CONTEXT. What is this??? I have a hard time wrapping my head around this more than a silly phrase shared by a few non-notable blogs. If we can establish that this is some sort of well established logical construct important to a specific field of philosophy or science or some other study (like the Prisoner's dilemma or Schrödinger's cat), then perhaps we will be getting some where. Right now it seems well below notability, and I have a hard time even seeing where this dilemma has reached a level of acceptance to be referred to in scholarly press, as the above have. --Jayron 32 06:10, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Good deal! The article still needs some expansion probably, but the additional links make it MUCH better.  The cognitive behavior website is a particularly good link, it seems, and the article finally has some context as to the field of study it applies too.  The last thing you should do is find some more categories to put it in.  It isn't a phrase, as I categorized it.  Find a good category under the Psychology category that it fits in well, and put it there.  Happy editing! --Jayron 32  03:04, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't really know about Spider Robinson - and as the lone source of both cultural references, he seems pretty non-notable, unfortunately. However, I know a little more about Heinlein, who used the term in I Will Fear No Evil, from 1970. Maybe Robinson was a Heinlein fan, and that's where he got it? Whoever stumbles onto this article a few years later should look into where Heinlein got it. 59.172.240.146 (talk) 22:58, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

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