Comment by bonoboTP

I'm not sure that this new approach will be AI-resistant. Why would people not use AI to help in creating the "motivated explanations". Maybe they can't be one shotted today, but AI also makes this easier.

Assume in 2 years we have a heap of these motivated explanations, all as high quality as Grant's videos and the best books. But who will read them? There is limited interest in this genre. Grant reaches a large fraction of this audience but most people really don't want to think about math either way, no matter how good the explanation is.

Indeed, there is now "edutainment slop" online and AI can use 3blue1brown's manim library to copy his style and AI can use blender and video generation to mimic 3d animations of other explainer channels. Today it's still slop, but it may not be for too long. And then people will have to reframe their job until it's "doing X while also farting and burping every now and then", and then a machine will be better at that too eventually.

Also, this new style of doing math will appeal to a different set of people. Many mathematicians aren't super social, they just like to explore a problem on their own. Think Grigori Perelman. They will still face the problem and their temperament may not make it easy to switch to being a communicator.