However, when scifi-esque terms flow over into the real world and affect the livelihoods of real people, jargon only benefits the few who have the luxury to dabble in its lexicon. Why not make it as accessible by default?
There's a certain appeal to incredibly complex systems, at least to some people, and there can be joy in going so deep in a complex system that you and your peers are creating, you get to forget about any painful interaction points with the larger world in which it exists and by which it will still always be constrained.
Without understanding this emotion and motivation, it can be baffling to see where the ideas of crypto take people, because at face value, it just doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes.
When you don't understand it, it seems inscrutable and anyone who does seems like a genius.
When you understand it, it becomes boring and often trivial.
I can assure you that Vitalik isn't some kind of Uber genius who is 50 years ahead of everyone. Not even Einstein was, and he was much farther away than Vitalik is.
You can enjoy it as some sort of entertainment, but don't extrapolate it too far.
To me, Vitalik’s brain is like 50 years ahead of the rest of us. I also trust him to speak as plainly and concisely as possible. I get the same rush from reading these posts as watching a great sci-fi film, except it’s not fiction. It’s (mostly) real.