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Gatekeeping, or self-promotion? You don't get investors/patents/promotions/tenure by making your knowledge or results sound simple and understandable.


Is that really the case or are you just assuming so? Seems counter-intuitive to me.


Why not both? And that's a good point, there are a LOT of incentives to make things arbitrarily complex in a variety of fields.




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