schratze on Nostr: One of the primary reasons for my disillusionment with academia is that it's straight ...
One of the primary reasons for my disillusionment with academia is that it's straight up considered bad taste to write in a style that the average person can understand. You have to subscribe to the obscurantism and gatekeeping if you want to be taken seriously in academia.
Here's the uncomfortable truth, scholars and scientists: none of what you're doing is so complex that you can't write about it in a way that a ten year old child could understand it.
Now, instead of using more inclusive and less jargony language, academics are relying on LLMs to write their texts instead. We're getting closer and closer to the point where every academic paper in a given discipline is exactly the same, with only a few words and numbers changed.
This is the academic equivalent of the entire universe turning into solid iron, as it might according to one theory. And that's really depressing if you consider that science and the humanities are one of the few things that actually hold potential for improving life on this planet.
Here's the uncomfortable truth, scholars and scientists: none of what you're doing is so complex that you can't write about it in a way that a ten year old child could understand it.
Now, instead of using more inclusive and less jargony language, academics are relying on LLMs to write their texts instead. We're getting closer and closer to the point where every academic paper in a given discipline is exactly the same, with only a few words and numbers changed.
This is the academic equivalent of the entire universe turning into solid iron, as it might according to one theory. And that's really depressing if you consider that science and the humanities are one of the few things that actually hold potential for improving life on this planet.