Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Clarity in Humanities Writing
"I don't want to be an ass like and I'm kind of doing an ass about this right?" he asks. "There is a desire to push a kind of a it's a kind of an inaccessibility heuristic so I know that I can't understand a physics paper published in science right? So how do I feel when I'm writing just about happiness how do I make other people take my stuff seriously"? The cardinal sin of writing is willful obscurity, says the author. He thinks no one person maybe has that intention of doing it but that and only that can account for the arms race of like fucking cryptic language in so many areas including philosophy.
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