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Aaronson doesn't stand to gain anything Well, he does explain what he stands to gain in the post: a clear conscience that he's being fair to Deolalikar whilst
by gruseom 16y ago
Aaronson doesn't stand to gain anything
Well, he does explain what he stands to gain in the post: a clear conscience that he's being fair to Deolalikar whilst not expending any hard work on his proof. He's buying the right to enjoy the rest of his vacation. I think it makes sense. It's easy to see how he would feel both obligated to respond to all the people asking about this and annoyed about it, and this is a clever way out of the dilemma.
Edit: "I wanted to stop having to answer emails about this. To me, that’s easily worth the possibility of paying $200k."
- nandemo 16y ago> Edit: "I wanted to stop having to answer emails about this. To me, that’s easily worth the possibility of paying $200k." I guess a guy may be as outrageous or egomaniac as he wants on his own blog, but how does that make it hacker news, or news at all? I don't care if he's an expert at the subject, there's no content at all about the proof in that post.
- gruseom 16y agoOh, I'd say it's well within the guidelines. Interesting new phenomena are allowed to be frivolous.