This is inevitable. Some people think when someone talk in technical terms, or is a person with good training and background, or is a clown saying nonsense. In cases like postmodern guys, the latter is the case, in the LW community, maybe be the former. I've been reading comments and the sequences so far, and seen to me that the language in LW is a important signal of rationality level. Ambiguity is not a good thing, precision is, and when someone go confuse, it's because he lacks some important knowledge. But, academia don't use LW idiom. Some try to be precise, others don't. In the dialogue it's clear, a great part is around definitions. With Goertzel was the same.