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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Naive prejudice I had about the world when I was 15 turns out to be entirely correct: https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
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Same with academia. This is the paper where Crick & Watson proposed the double-helix structure of DNA. It resulted in the Nobel Prize It's simple, it's elegant, and is two pages long.
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I wonder if there's a similar phenomenon for finance-speak.
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
100%. There's this scene in "Big Short" where character played by Ryan Gosling says that they use all these complex expressions so that you feel dumb and pay them to do the work.
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