Sunday, August 27, 2006

 

JSH: What might people do?

Let's say for the sake of argument that I am right, and mathematicians as a group have seized upon acting brilliant versus actually doing real research, and people found out?

What might they do?

Surprisingly the evidence is actually easy, which I guess is because it is actually hard to be brilliant, so playing at it with mathematics requires that you use simple stuff.

But doesn't there have to be a public will for it as well, where on some level people kind of know it's a con and there can't be that many "beautiful minds" running around, so there must be some fakery?

Doesn't our world society recognize that the likelihood of routine acting at being mathematicians is more likely than there really being that much important research being done?

Like, this stuff is so obvious, let's go deepr tha than just this primes thing, and talk about computer checking of mathematicians. I have heard math people routinely claim computers aren't smart enough!

Or they go on and on about how difficult it would have to be, and who can program such a thing? Or how do you check the programs?

In short, they throw up a lot of sand when MOST people today know that computers seem to be rather good with many things, so why should supposedly logical and mathematically precise statements be beyond checking by computer?

Computers are calling people up on the phone and having conversations with them—very limited yes, but it's hard to accept this supposed inability to check some mathematician on what he claims is a brilliant proof by a computer when they're starting to understand human speech, which is a mess.

Is mathematics logical and orderly, or not?

So get what I'm saying—it's obvious there is something wrong in the field.

Skeptical people understand that fraud happens.

But checks in the mathematical field for published cases of fraud reveal very little if anything.

So are mathematicians the most ethical academics in the history of the world?

Really? Let me ask again:

Are mathematicians the most ethical academics in the history of the world?

I suggest to you, no, but they are the ones who stand the most to lose from serious scrutiny from a public that wants to believe they are something they are not.

How many great mathematicians in history are there?

Any of you have a clue?

A handful.

That's in all of human history. Yet supposedly there has been an explosion TODAY in mathematical research, and there are thousands of mathematicians working around the world.

I suggest to you that mathematics did NOT get easier.

If you care at all about what you think you knew about primes, consider my post on primes and randomness and then do some reading on what mathematicians say in the same area.

Yes, I am telling you that you don't know what you think you know because a group of people have found a benefit in lying to you.

Oh gee, like that is such a surprise in our modern world.

If it is a surprise to you—you call yourself a skeptic?





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