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Academia gatekeeps knowledge by using unnecessarily complex language, alienating formats, makes it so you have to be both dedicated and culturally familiar to understand it. Rationalist writing, by contrast, is extremely accessible Feels like a similar vibe to elon and twitter

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sure, some language is necessary, but a huge amount of academic language isn't, and the part that isn't is what i'm talking about

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Hmm, I beg to differ. Especially on some of the more common academic subjects, the slang is developed to make it easier to describe concepts that are very complex to people who have the background knowledge, as to save time. I'd like to hear example, to see what you actually mean

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True...once did a sociology short course and understanding books like ordinary affects and the structure of objects was just traumatizing... until you understand it and realize it's just normal sentences structured to appear so complex

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