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>an idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity, a physicist tries to make it simple, for an idiot anything the more complicated it is the more he will admire it, if you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it. That's how they write journals in Academics, they try to make it so complicated people think you're a genius
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The problem with this little platitude is that making concepts simple enough for an ordinary person to understand would mean wasting a lot if ink on concepts that the target audience already should know.
I could explain pythag theorem to a sufficiently curious, and patient, 5 year old. It would take an hour to get there if I wanted him to grasp it in a functional way though.
Or I could teach a young teenager the same thing in about 5 mins building on what he should already know at that point.
Simple concepts seem complicated to those that don't have the prerequisite knowledge to understand it.