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Re:What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?... by crispyambulance on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:05AM (#22800266)
> It's just sad, and it really shows the yawning chasm between verbal fluency and real expertise.

I agree, if by "verbal fluency" you mean stringing together heavyweight jargon and concepts like Eddy Van Halen doing a guitar riff.

Even in a colloquium filled with subject matter experts that kind of pace is off-putting and raises red-flags instantly-- but this guy does it when communicating with the general public, fully knowing that people are going to be lost in a matter of seconds.

... so yeah, that and NO FREAKING PAPERS. It's a bit disconcerting for a theory that purports to unify relativity with quantum mechanics.

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Re:What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?... by knzhou on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:12AM (#22800293)
Exactly, he was obviously intentionally trying to overwhelm people with jargon. That drives me crazy. Other physicists don't do this, because it serves no purpose aside from making the speaker look smart, and we have other priorities.
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