It’s not just a choice of which jargon but of (if and) when you explain the jargon and (if and) how you contextualize it.
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Much FP-related writing uses the max number of jargon terms and explains none of them. This says: GO AWAY OUTSIDERS.
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And being beginner-hostile by omission is very revealing of the community’s values.
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Hanlon's Razor corollary: never attribute to values what can be explained by non-existence of collective identity
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And all in-groups are defined negatively against out-groups. Beginners are transitional so in-group attitudes are complex.
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umm only a fraction (albeit a large one) processes skills learning around in-group/out-group to begin with
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But values are also defined negatively: by what you don’t spend time and energy on.

