Comment by whilenot-dev
4 days ago
> I’m pointing out that I specifically intended to exclude professionals by scoping my statement to “social groups”.
I think your argumentation is a generalization that's close to a rationalist fallacy we're discussing:
> 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.
Groups of artists do this all the time for the sake of agency over their intentions. They borrow terminology from economics, psychology, computer science etc., but exclude economists, psychologists and computer scientists all the time. I had one choreographer talk to me about his performances as if they were "Protocols". People are free to use any vocabulary to describe their observed dynamics, expressions or phenomena.
As far as red flag moments go, the intent to use a certain terminology still prevails any choice of terminology itself.
I think there's a distinction between inventing new terms for utilitarian purposes vs ideological and in-group signalling purposes.
If you have groups talking about "expected value" or "dot products", that's different from groups who talk a lot about "privilege" or "the deep state". Even though the latter would claim they're just using jargon between experts, just like the scientists.