The explanation I hear most often for this is that foundational papers often start de novo. But much of this effect - maybe most of it - is that the ideas from foundational papers enter our culture and colonize it. Turing 1950 may well be much easier to read today than in 1950.https://twitter.com/nabeelqu/status/1181298253381476353 …
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To whatever extent specialized language offers a usable proxy for specialization, do you have an intuition as to whether jargon leads or lags substantive progress? And how you might identify when specialization is impeding progress?
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On the first question: in healthy fields it seems coeval. In more fake fields it can all be theatre. I'm sure specialization always "impedes" progress, for suitable definition of impedes.
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