This thread demonstrates that a lot of academic writing that *looks* like utter nonsense is merely scholars dressing up a useful but mundane point with a ton of unnecessary jargon.https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1051097280030396417 …
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Right. The difficulty lies in knowing where to draw the line, i.e., when a concept actually cannott be made any simpler. We don't want all writing to be like the xkcd Up Goer Five, written with only the 100 most common words). https://xkcd.com/1133/
Right. If all jargon were transparent, it wouldn't work very well as a barrier-to-entry, right? That's why you need insiders to critique the jargon; outsiders will only ever have suspicions.
Right! Too much jargon is a barrier-to-entry. But that's not the only function of jargon. Sometimes its necessary to use specialized language to capture specialized ideas.
As evidenced by the first word of our tweets, we agree here. We're just placing different emphasis on the point where we agree. The tricky question is whether certain fields cross the line between specialization-for-clarity and obscurantism-for-exclusivity more often than others.
Yeah. And also, I think a lot of people tend to assume that academic bullshit comes with large social costs. But I wonder if confining bullshit to academia actually protects the real world from bad ideas! ;-)
Me looking at business-jargon and corporate-speak:pic.twitter.com/0rO4WWB391
Counterpoint: isn’t jargon, like Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” or literary criticism, another way for the brain to enjoy abstract thought? (You could get the gist in a two-page summary.) Part of the fun of Tolstoy is dissecting the esotericism, the difficulty of comprehension.
So you're saying that jargon enters directly into the utility function? Are you thinking of quasilinear preferences here, or a CES aggregator of jargon and other consumption?
Quorips of deteticiasm have always aided comprehensitorianism. You should know that as a proto-Audenian economist with some background in essezimechanicism, sir.
My thesis is so simple, you have to watch only 200 hours of YouTube to not misconstrue my praxis!
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