You know a person is full of shit when they use a lot of jargon words in a row. A good thinker will use jargon but they'll use it sparingly. Their understanding is rooted in fundamental elements that everyone can understand—it's their combination that's novel.
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When people use a lot of jargon they're hiding. They hide a deficient in understanding They hide the reality of what's actually happening. Or they hide the simplicity of their knowledge because they want to seem prestigious.
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Replying to @then_there_was
This heuristic is good, but hard to implement unless you have a similar level of expertise to the person you’re talking to. Sometimes, “It’s an inferior good” or “that’s range restriction” saves you a few hundred words at the cost of making your point obscure to laypeople.
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Sometimes you have to use words people don't understand. I get it. What I'm criticizing is when a person uses a bunch of unfamiliar words in a row. That shouldn't happen. There should be some simplicity in-between. I think that's a tell for bullshit.
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There are exceptions, like people learning a concept in a new language, but I'm not talking about them. I'm assuming speaker and audience both have a similar mastery of a language in this situation.
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If they can't explain a concept simply, they likely don't know what the fuck they're talking about or they're intentionally trying to deceive you.
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Yeah. I guess the best heuristic is: if you restate their point without jargon, does the word count go up or down?
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