Ultimately I think it’s still possible for groups of intellectual insiders to communicate clearly with each other and make rapid progress, and also for a lot of that to be Babble that isn’t necessarily meant to hold up rigorously. I think this is more of an additional argument in favor of reducing research debt, and making sure to distill your ideas.
And, I think maybe people should feel more of an obligation to practice communicating their ideas to laymen, not just because it’s object-level-good to be able to explain ideas to a wider audience, but because there’s a tragedy-of-the-commons where if you don’t do that, the wider audience is not only ignorant, but vulnerable.
Ultimately I think it’s still possible for groups of intellectual insiders to communicate clearly with each other and make rapid progress, and also for a lot of that to be Babble that isn’t necessarily meant to hold up rigorously. I think this is more of an additional argument in favor of reducing research debt, and making sure to distill your ideas.
And, I think maybe people should feel more of an obligation to practice communicating their ideas to laymen, not just because it’s object-level-good to be able to explain ideas to a wider audience, but because there’s a tragedy-of-the-commons where if you don’t do that, the wider audience is not only ignorant, but vulnerable.