Vaniver comments on Rationalists don't care about the future - Less Wrong
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I would agree, if the post treated the reader that way. When you multiply a polynomial by an exponential, the exponential wins. That's all the author needed to get to his point; instead we have dense paragraphs poorly explaining why that is the case.
"Dense paragraphs" and poor/unclear wording is not the same thing as "dense maths". So I disagree with timtyler's point, but not with yours.
Presumably, even if the exposition were phrased more clearly, timtyler would still have a problem with the "dense maths".