(1) Developing rationality@LW as it’s own paradigma by reusing other concepts from LessWrong.
No field of science can stand on it’s own without creating it’s own terms and seeing how those terms interact with another.
(2) Defensibly against being able to be quoted in a bad way.
Charles Murray succeeded in writing “The Bell Curve” in a way, where almost nobody who criticizes the book quotes it because he took care with all the sentence to write nothing that can easily taken out of context. Given the amount of criticism the book got that’s a quite impressive feat.
Unfortunately, in many controversial topics it’s helpful to write as defensibly or even Straussian.
Depending on the goal of a particular post (1) or (2) sometimes matter and at other times it’s worthwhile to write for a wider audience.
There are two reasons for jargon.
(1) Developing rationality@LW as it’s own paradigma by reusing other concepts from LessWrong.
No field of science can stand on it’s own without creating it’s own terms and seeing how those terms interact with another.
(2) Defensibly against being able to be quoted in a bad way.
Charles Murray succeeded in writing “The Bell Curve” in a way, where almost nobody who criticizes the book quotes it because he took care with all the sentence to write nothing that can easily taken out of context. Given the amount of criticism the book got that’s a quite impressive feat.
Unfortunately, in many controversial topics it’s helpful to write as defensibly or even Straussian.
Depending on the goal of a particular post (1) or (2) sometimes matter and at other times it’s worthwhile to write for a wider audience.