Yeah—I think there’s multiple posts-worth of “how to think about jargon” (some of which I feel qualified to write, and some of which are more of “open problems”), and the problem of “how to avoid dilution” is important.
A useful first-step (when writing a blogpost attempting to coin a jargon term, or popularize it) might be to check “does the term I’m creating seem similar to another concept that people will want to use” (in particular, a concept they’ll want to use more often than the the one I’m pointing at), and then specifically highlight those similar concepts (perhaps giving them a name people can use so they don’t accidentally use mine)
Yeah—I think there’s multiple posts-worth of “how to think about jargon” (some of which I feel qualified to write, and some of which are more of “open problems”), and the problem of “how to avoid dilution” is important.
A useful first-step (when writing a blogpost attempting to coin a jargon term, or popularize it) might be to check “does the term I’m creating seem similar to another concept that people will want to use” (in particular, a concept they’ll want to use more often than the the one I’m pointing at), and then specifically highlight those similar concepts (perhaps giving them a name people can use so they don’t accidentally use mine)