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Avoiding Jargon Confusion
Sapient Coccolithophore40

I'm not sure you can do much about this. But if you're introducing a new concept that's especially "powerful sounding", maybe

Was there supposed to be more text here?

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6gjm
In fairness, "bureaucracy" is an unusually difficult word to spell correctly (though splitting it as bureau/-cracy, the former being an English word and the latter the suffix in democracy, autocracy, etc., helps) and Christian is not a native anglophone.
Boltzmann Brains, Simulations and self refuting hypothesis
Sapient Coccolithophore30

Interesting post, but I found some typos:

Lets suppose, for the purposes of this post,

"Lets" should be changed to "Let's."

Whats actually going on here. We have three hypothesis.

"Whats" should be changed to "What's," at the very least. Additionally, these sentences seem off. The first one is a fragment, and it seems like they should be joined somehow.

We have three hypothesis.

Use the plural form here.

Option 2)

Did you intend to write a full sentence here?

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1Donald Hobson
Fixed. Thanks.