alt Hacker NewsEsoterism is mostly a social tool to keep those not initiated excluded from the private club. Most of the time mathematics becomes tricky less due to unfathomable intrinsic complexity, and more due to the way it’s communicated.
LLMs don’t give a shit about social side effects, leave alone on unconscious level, because they are void of any intention. At most they are tuned on their thin edge layer to lean toward this or that kind of output, but that’s it.
Now the landscape shift as it’s sold (I guess) is that anyone can take a postdoc gibberish infused with the hard gained academic winks and subtle references and turn it into a ELI5 "does it have any applicability for my concrete issue at stake, prove it through Lean, good let’s deploy".
When I use the word “esoteric”, I mean it at an absolutely hyperbolic level. Like exploring new-but-basically-useless axiom spaces, and creating concepts for which there exists no clean metaphor in time-space - like quantum mechanics on steroids. And then creating multiplicatively more complex concepts by combining those concepts together.
There’s no way to “ELI5” this type of complexity. I’m talking about concepts exponentially more esoteric than quantum mechanics, and even within quantum mechanics there is nothing to ELI5 for a concept like “spin”. The best you can do is say that it’s a property of a particle. But imagine the words “property” and “particle” are also completely meaningless to you because they’re built on even more layers of conceptual mathematical abstraction.