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Does the length of his sequences imply that Eliezer doesn't understand their subject matter, or that the universe is sometimes actually complicated?
Simplicity and concision are independent. I don't find Eliezer's sequences complicated. They are long, but simple all the way through.
Simplicity and grandmother-explainability are also not the same thing. I'd reject the grandmother quote, but this one I don't have a problem with, even if Einstein never said it.
Something I tell students when I'm teaching programming is "What is not clearly said was never clearly thought."