Comment by toasterlovin
4 days ago
> The key takeaway from the article is that if you have a group leader who cuts you off from other people, that's a red flag
Even better: a social group with a lot of invented lingo is a red flag that you can see before you get isolated from your loved ones.
By this token, most scientists would be considered cultists: normal people don't have "specific tensile strength" or "Jacobian" or "Hermitian operator" etc in their vocabulary. "Must be some cult"?
Edit: it seems most people don't understand what I'm pointing out.
Having terminology is not the red flag.
Having intricate terminology without a domain is the red flag.
In science or mathematics, there are enormous amounts of jargon, terms, definitions, concepts, but they are always situated in some domain of study.
The "rationalists" (better call them pseudorationalists) invent their own concepts without actual corresponding domain, just life. It's like kids re-inventing their generation specific words each generation to denote things they like or dislike, etc.
> social group
fine, the jargon of a "social group" of science is a red flag?
sure, theres lots of nasty side effects of how academia is run, rewarded, etc..
but thats not because of precision of language employed.
do you want scientists recycling the same words and overloading ever more meanings onto ever more ambiguous words?
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So every fandom in history?