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Personally, I do believe that math as a discipline has this huge issue of being mostly incomprehensible garbage.

Not because the actual truth encoded in it would be this complex, but because the encoding scheme just sucks.

I see it as a packaging problem that has so far not been painful enough to trigger any meaningful change.

With this LLM-driven collapse, that might finally change.

Idk I'm hopeful.

Math is literally the law of the universe. It makes zero sense that the way that it is taught needs some special brain wiring only found in small chunks of the population to truly click.

> Math is literally the law of the universe. It makes zero sense that the way that it is taught needs some special brain wiring

Ok, I'm all for overhauling math notation and teaching but this doesn't follow. Most animals can't do Math, even if they can do arithmetic. Clearly living in the universe doesn't guarantee you can learn how it works. There's no reason to believe we slightly smarter animals are universally entitled to understand it either.