3 ms·
Some amount of jargon is needed (in general, not just for this) to optimize communication among experts, but still, your comment reminded me of Pirsig’s concept
by fipar 2y ago
Some amount of jargon is needed (in general, not just for this) to optimize communication among experts, but still, your comment reminded me of Pirsig’s concept (IIRC introduced in his second book, “Lila”) of the “cultural inmune system”, as he did bring jargon up in that context too.
I guess, unsurprisingly, for jargon it is as for almost anything else: there’s a utility function with one inflection point past which the output value actually becomes less (if the goal is to convey information as clearly as possible, for other goals, I guess the utility function may be exponential …)