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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Binary Babe  🧙‍♀️‏ @DimorphicDiva 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      What you're saying is it is somehow easier to explain quantum physics than it is to explain inner workings of society to people? Get outta here.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @DimorphicDiva @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      I don't think it actually is particularly easy to explain quantum physics, which is why the vast majority of lay people who think they understand it don't I don't even mean in the sense that the explanation they got was non-rigorous, I mean they remember the explanation wrong

      3 replies 4 retweets 20 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      Like, God bless Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, etc for trying I guess but it's not easy to explain and even if you use small words people fuck it up I don't think I understand it all that well myself but I understand enough to know what they don't understand

      3 replies 2 retweets 20 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      Like ALL THE TIME I hear people repeat stuff like "Einstein thought you can't go past the speed of light, but quantum physics says you can, you can use entanglement to send messages FTL" Which is 100% completely wrong, but is the basis of whole "hard" SF settings

      2 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      Anyway Even if you were right about that, why the fuck would that be weird Of course the hardest thing for human beings to talk about is ourselves We're trying to talk about the process of talking, understand the process of understanding

      2 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      It's a logical paradox, trying to turn your eyes all the way around so they can see themselves, like a snake eating its own tail The difficulty of true introspection has been discussed for thousands of years

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      One specific reason that some humanities scholars give for the use of jargon, which you are free to disagree with but is hard to dismiss out of hand, is that it's *necessary* to use difficult, big words to get you to actually *think* about what is being said

      2 replies 5 retweets 17 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      That the very danger of trying to translate ideas into "plain speech" is when you're talking about something emotionally fraught that you already have many deep kneejerk assumptions about, you'll just translate it into what you already want to hear

      3 replies 5 retweets 21 likes
    9. Binary Babe  🧙‍♀️‏ @DimorphicDiva 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      This honesty is what I find missing whenever I talk to people in this field. I understand your reasoning, just know that this obfuscation also has the side effect of people not taking it seriously.

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @DimorphicDiva @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      Specialized terms of art are not "obfuscation" Again, this is a form of devaluing the work being done in the field People working out ideas with their peers aren't obligated to do it as a performance for a lay audience, it wouldn't help them with their work

      4 replies 4 retweets 31 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

      When people say shit like this it's because they don't think the humanities actually are work They get why Feynman would have one voice with his colleagues and another voice for speeches in public

      9:05 AM - 24 Sep 2020
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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @CassidyGavin @graceelavery

          But when it comes to women's studies they go "Well all you're doing is giving speeches right? Isn't that the whole job? Just telling men they should be nicer to women? Why would you need big words for that?"

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