I have a mathematician friend who studied mathematics at MIT and then worked in a research team at Google for some time. I caught up with him, and casually half

I have a mathematician friend who studied mathematics at MIT and then worked in a research team at Google for some time. I caught up with him, and casually half-jokingly told him that I tried to understand some of his papers but I got nothing out of them. And he replied, in earnest, that some of the papers are needlessly and deliberately complicated and obfuscated for a whole host of reasons (political reasons, career reasons etc). This jargon-heavy circumlocutious academic speak you find often in papers, it's a gate-barrier... to keep out non-native English speakers, up-and-coming scholars? I don't know, but whatever the case, let's hope the outflow of papers written with LLM assistance takes a blow at the problem, when the corpus of literature is so diluted with all this that corporate-speak and jargon-heavy speak as a differentiator for in-group or whatever has a lesser incentive to exist. https://paulgraham.com/simply.html https://paulgraham.com/simply.html