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A 4chan user solved a 25yo combinatorics problem. If it can be done there why not twitter

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This is a bad counter-argument. What do you think is the overwhelming product of ranting and raving of anime-picture "scientists" on Twitter: scientific muddying of waters that confuse laypeople and promulgate disinformation, or actual theorem-solving?


Anonymization is the only completely sane response to the completely crazy reach-impact spiral of data mining data broker platform TOS. Online persona(s) are private brands of built up real public social value over time and just because there is no officiated imprimatur's stamp of approval, doesn't mean you can exclude them without other cause from the real conversation walled off in ivory corporate towers of group think apprentice effected idea cloning orthodoxy.

I know of a 3D graphics format interop workgroup at an official Standard Setting Organization where some of the main contributors are MAdjDuckSauce type handles and its caused no lack of backflipping through hoops to get their input codified because of ISO 9000 prescribed forms that still want your employer organization's fax number listed.

In fact, how this whole story played out on arXiv is a great example of the power of all hands on deck crowdsourced global fact checking in the broad noisy open realtime light of day. More claims should be subject to this kind of wide net scrutiny not less.

(*Correction to post above it should read "ethnically Soviet" as pointed out below)




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