When faced with seemingly equivalent choices, pick the once that maximizes your future options.

Imagine not even having a proper magnetic field smh

Academic writing can be used as a smoke screen to mask bullshit, or to express ideas concisely. But this can happen in all communication.

Another important function is that communicating in this style shows you know “how thingsa re done”. It functions as an implicit screening for wierdos, but comes at the expense of keeping people wit hgood ideas but an unadapted writing style out of the field.

We have suffered for millions of years under mosquitos are they are likely the biggest killer of humans in history. Maybe us evolving big brains and developing genetic engineering is an evolutionary necessity?

Or as Harbinger said: “We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.”