nishio There is a concept C, a group of experts X uses C. Someone outside X, Y, comes along and abstracts C in a messy way and applies it to a strange domain D (description from X’s perspective). X gets angry at Y and thinks people who appreciate Y’s statements are idiots.
By the way, whether C’, which is an abstraction of C, is beneficial for application in D is irrelevant to C. So if it’s useful, that’s a good use for it.
The problem is that Y confuses C’, which is an abstraction of C, by calling it C, and steals credit even though “it is irrelevant that C is useful in the original domain that X was using and that C’ is useful in D”.
I’ll paint a picture of this case later. Related paintings - Buzzword is low resolution.
Related Keywords - Sokal incident - Sokal: Criticism of thinkers’ use of mathematical and physical terms as if they were playing games without understanding their meaning”. - Dissent: Sokal is simply relentlessly ridiculing the metaphors and analogies used in “postmodern philosophy.” - Composition of person Y who does not understand concept C using C as a metaphor for person Z who does not understand it. - You don’t understand concept C, so you can’t function as an analogy. - Toddler uses father’s gun as a toy
- People in various fields have started using the word (only) in the complex systems groove for everything.”. - It’s a buzzword that has been consumed by the crowds of people who are too busy spreading the word.
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