I wish I'd seen this impossibility result long ago: https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aoms/1177728077 …
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Yeah, that's the explanation I _want_ to give, for sure. But beware motivated reasoning and all that.
More people naturally leads to more division of labour and more specialization, which in turns leads to more specialized terminology, which makes papers harder to read.
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Ah, I like that. So if we think of science over time as a branching diagram, we should expect reading papers "up the tree" (back in time) to be easier than reading papers "along the siblings". Very nice.
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I like the visual! It's interesting to watch fields split in real time. I believe this is happening in ML at the moment, for instance. (Rapid growth -> too many papers -> people specialize -> subfields split off.)
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