Verbosity in literature is valuable and seductive. Verbiage in science frequently conceals meaning, it is often used to overly boost relevance, and it denotes affectation and a pompous disposition. Please avoid it!
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Yes, true. What do you think is the reason for this?
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Simulation: "That paper was so hard to read! I couldn't really parse the sentences... I mean, I don't think I got even half of it after reading it five times — what a great paper."
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That doesn’t make any sense to me. How often do people think that way? It’s quite puzzling.
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I can't say how often because I don't know how to calibrate that, but often enough that I've seen it in black and white as well as in private chats.
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Wow weird. I guess I’ve been lucky. That doesn’t seem to be a good heuristic, let alone a semblance of reasoning.
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It's a good heuristic, literally if you need the quickest dirtiest first pass, in the specific isolated cases I touched on, otherwise it's trash.
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I’ve always thought making something seem easy to do/understand is a great sign of skill of expertise. Creating that sense of “effortlessness” tends to take a lot of effort and thought, in all domains. So my own heuristic would be the opposite.
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I see people berating others in Psychology "but it's too simple" or "obviously duh" essentially. Sad but true. Of course if it's so obvious and simple, you wonder why didn't they do it?

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