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vessenesyesterday at 4:33 PM1 replyview on HN

A counterpoint - I was told a story by one of my professors in the late 1990s, about one of his professors -- he'd written a thesis, gotten hired somewhere like Princeton, and taught there for a few years as Dr. <Somebody>. One day he received a letter pointing out a construction flaw in his thesis. He brought it to the department head who read the letter, and said "Well, Mr. Somebody, ..." Ultimately he fixed the proof.

Upshot, if there are real errors in published work, I think most mathematicians want to know about them.


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stevemk14ebryesterday at 5:00 PM

Yea but that was a person who actually put in work and had to think about and understand the problem. They didn't just generate something with a magic box.

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