Except nobody is saying that. Every computer scientist acknowledges that we have not proven P!=NP. I would be delighted to see either P!=NP or P=NP proven. I h

Except nobody is saying that. Every computer scientist acknowledges that we have not proven P!=NP. I would be delighted to see either P!=NP or P=NP proven. I have devoted 0% of my career to this question, so it does not stand to embarass me. I suppose this is the case for the vast majority of people who suspect P!=NP (myself included). There are only a few people that stand to really be embarassed by a proof. And among those, probably even fewer actually care enough to be embarassed.