Possible explanation: papers are becoming less how you communicate ideas, and more how you register work to get credit for it.https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/906067667055919105 …
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So it's no more necessary that they be readable than that patent applications be readable.
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I don't see how that's an incentive. It takes effort to make something non-readable. You'd arguably only do that for some payoff.
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That payoff could be as simple as "my peers use more specific language and I should too"
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Readable by who? The goal is to share with peers in a subfield. There are other channels sharing with the public.
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