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Because: 1. good communication requires an intelligence that most people sadly lack 2. because the type of people who are smart enough to invent transformers
by Solvency 2y ago
Because:
1. good communication requires an intelligence that most people sadly lack
2. because the type of people who are smart enough to invent transformers have zero incentive to make them easily understandable.
most documents are written by authors subconsciously desperate to mentally flex on their peers.
- penguin_booze 2y agoPedagogy requires empathy, to know what it's like to not know something. They'll often draw on experiences the listener is already familiar with, and then bridge the gap. This skill is orthogonal to the mastery of the subject itself, which I think is the reason most descriptions sound confusing, inadequate, and/or incomprehensible. Often, the disseminating medium is a one-sided, like a video or a blog post, which doesn't help, either. A conversational interaction would help the expert sense why someone outside the domain find the subject confusing ("ah, I see what you mean"...), discuss common pitfalls ("you might think it's like this... but no, it's more like this...") etc.
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- WithinReason 2y ago2. It's not malice. The longer you have understood something the harder it is to explain it, since you already forgot what it was like to not understand it.