So it's no more necessary that they be readable than that patent applications be readable.
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Also: bigger need to write more papers to keep academic employment; if one doesn't have ideas, he writes complexly to hide the lack of ideas
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Making complex ideas simple is the mark of a genius. Making simple ideas complex is the mark of a charlatan
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Also: complex jargon -> signaling belonging to field and smartness (
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Or, depth of knowledge necessary to understand advances is growing. We stand on the shoulders of giants!
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Bull shit! That is elitism! If a scientist is not able to share the results in an understandable way to the tax payers=failure
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Smaller semiconductors and better algorithms take specialized knowledge. Is specialization elitism?
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Sorry, didn't mean that. I'm a virologist/molecular biologist. Just pointing at how no one (common man) understands what is published.
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Can also be a result of growing complexity as the fields get old. Bitcoin paper will likely be more readable than a crypto paper in 2025.
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Yes, and hamming up the diction makes work sound smarter/impactful --> more likely to be accepted by a journal
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I've seen at least a couple scientists complain on twitter that reviewers force them to make their papers less understandable (!)
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Don't the academics also care about how often their papers are cited? Communicating seems critical for that.
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Or is it that all the easily explainable stuff has been done already
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the real issue with scientific papers is that we haven't "democratized" the process yet! sounds like a job for a
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signaling membership in niche subdiscipline in-group language community
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Sounds a lot like patents.
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1) Increasing sector specialism 2) Value in signalling the above 3) Impenetrability masking shallow ideas 4) Prolific publication rewarded
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Maybe then the total number of words should be decreasing as well, suggesting it's only about the facts, not the communication aspects.
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Also how you communicate with and impress your own specific "in group".
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