I was surprised to see that this lovely write-up wasn’t posted here already. Also see the author’s Mastodon post about it: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117470082684445346
I was surprised to see that this lovely write-up wasn’t posted here already. Also see the author’s Mastodon post about it: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117470082684445346
I think the scenario in which they steal a solution and then release 300 more stolen solutions to cover it up is highly unlikely. Gish galloping doesn’t work when the news cycle has weeks to cover what you’ve published, if literally everything was stolen, we would’ve heard something by now.
But that isn’t how the news cycle works.
The news cycle lasts for maybe a week. Tops.
You don’t think they’d be bragging about how it got all of them right by now if that were the case?
If they had 301 new solutions, why would they release the stolen one first? I suppose it could be because it’s the only one they were confident was correct, but I think these people are likely hubristic and psychotic enough to believe that their plausibility engine actually solve all of the unsolved math questions (rather than providing plausible looking answers, as it’s explicitly designed to do, which then need to be disproven by actual thinking human mathematicians).