I think this is an excellent approach to jargon and I appreciate the examples you’ve given. There is too much tendency, I think, for experts in a field to develop whatever terminology makes their lives easiest (or even in some cases makes them “sound smart”) without worrying about accessibility to newcomers.
… but maybe ideally hints at a broader ecosystem of ideas
This sounds useful, but very hard to do in practice… do you know of a case where it’s successful?
I’m not sure if there are great examples (part of the problem is that jargon is hard), but I think “epistemic vs instrumental rationality” are sort of in the right direction.
They’re not common-jargon (you’d only use them frequently if you were buying into the entire ecosystem of rationality-thinking), but they are relatively easy to explain, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone misuse them, and they highlight that there’s a lot more rationality worth learning.
I think this is an excellent approach to jargon and I appreciate the examples you’ve given. There is too much tendency, I think, for experts in a field to develop whatever terminology makes their lives easiest (or even in some cases makes them “sound smart”) without worrying about accessibility to newcomers.
This sounds useful, but very hard to do in practice… do you know of a case where it’s successful?
I’m not sure if there are great examples (part of the problem is that jargon is hard), but I think “epistemic vs instrumental rationality” are sort of in the right direction.
They’re not common-jargon (you’d only use them frequently if you were buying into the entire ecosystem of rationality-thinking), but they are relatively easy to explain, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone misuse them, and they highlight that there’s a lot more rationality worth learning.