As far as I can tell, the whole job of mathematics professors is to obfuscate the fact that this is a thing.
@DRMacIver is a computer scientist and hasn’t been forced to take the sacred vows of silence. Yet. They won’t let him go much furtherhttps://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1189827287748927488 …
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My suspicion is that it is more commonly just vanilla curse of knowledge and people not consciously knowing things that they have very heavily internalised.
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I very rarely find that people are able to articulate most of the heuristics and intuitions they use constantly unless you walk them through it - it requires much more metacognition than most people routinely deploy.
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