Thoroughly boring and conventional advice. How about some advice from the dark side: First, become a distinguished researcher in the field so that there is no o

Thoroughly boring and conventional advice. How about some advice from the dark side: First, become a distinguished researcher in the field so that there is no other choice but to take you seriously. Then write a giant multi-part book-length paper consisting almost entirely of endless definitions and lemmas referring to each other. To those brave souls who actually try to read and understand the paper and who claim that they have found a problem with it, reply that they have profoundly misunderstood the nature of the work and should read the paper more carefully. Not actual advice of course. I just find the controversy surrounding Mochizuki's purported proof of the abc conjecture (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18034714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18034714) fascinating. Something like this could easily happen to P=NP when one cannot confidently state whether we have a proof or not.