The epiphany for me this week was a long list of rabbit holes from this long post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054

https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD638...

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/social.pdf

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2021/06/i-went-to-d...

https://6826.csail.mit.edu/2020/papers/noproof.pdf

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948767

Now I have no illusions about who looked stupid and who were stupid. It really doesn’t matter.

The jury is still out.