>Yes, this post is about our own “claimers” in complexity theory.
>The TV Claimers meet a grisly end. We will not say any more about it. We want to be nice.
>Please: Do not stop reading. Yes we know that it is likely that no claimer really has such a proof.
I understand the author's frustration on the subject, but I don't think his disdain is warranted. This reminds me of the time Mehdi Sadaghdar, who runs the YouTube channel ElectroBOOM, disagreed with former MIT Professor Dr. Walter Lewin's proposal that Kirchhoff's Law is "for the birds".
Sadaghdar reproduced the results from Dr. Lewin's experiments, but proposed an alternative explanation about what could be happening. He created a video for Dr. Lewin, and stated that he was open to being proven wrong, ending that "either way, the science will win".
Dr. Lewin's response, instead of educational, was belittling where he generalized Sadaghdar as one of the group that holds to Kirchhoff's Law "religiously", and that he needs better education. The explanation was wrapped around in copious amounts of disdain. Sadaghdar eventually realized that they both fundamentally believed the same thing, and that their disagreement was only an error in communication, however, Dr. Lewin's videos are far more disliked than liked, and he didn't come out appearing to be the good guy from the exchange.
My point is, maybe generalizing the people you're criticizing, even though you "think the vast majority of claimers of P=NP or other big results have almost always worked alone" and comparing them to a group of people who die a "grisly" death in a fictional TV series, before you begin a lecture, isn't educational.
I was bracing for you to reveal that Sadaghdar was right all along and that Dr.Lewin was wrong but.. in the end it's about whose youtube video like / dislike ratio is better?
Yes. And Sadaghdar was right all along, but turns around so was Dr. Lewin, it was an error in communication. Dr. Lewin defined Kirchhoff's Law in a particular way that Sadaghdar didn't agree with.
I'm sorry if that wasn't dramatic enough for you, but that's the only objective metric I have to show how either of their responses was received.
PS. Sadaghdar has 2.5 million subscribers, and Dr. Lewin has just under 400k, These are videos with thousands of like/dislike votes each.
>The TV Claimers meet a grisly end. We will not say any more about it. We want to be nice.
>Please: Do not stop reading. Yes we know that it is likely that no claimer really has such a proof.
I understand the author's frustration on the subject, but I don't think his disdain is warranted. This reminds me of the time Mehdi Sadaghdar, who runs the YouTube channel ElectroBOOM, disagreed with former MIT Professor Dr. Walter Lewin's proposal that Kirchhoff's Law is "for the birds".
Sadaghdar reproduced the results from Dr. Lewin's experiments, but proposed an alternative explanation about what could be happening. He created a video for Dr. Lewin, and stated that he was open to being proven wrong, ending that "either way, the science will win".
Dr. Lewin's response, instead of educational, was belittling where he generalized Sadaghdar as one of the group that holds to Kirchhoff's Law "religiously", and that he needs better education. The explanation was wrapped around in copious amounts of disdain. Sadaghdar eventually realized that they both fundamentally believed the same thing, and that their disagreement was only an error in communication, however, Dr. Lewin's videos are far more disliked than liked, and he didn't come out appearing to be the good guy from the exchange.
My point is, maybe generalizing the people you're criticizing, even though you "think the vast majority of claimers of P=NP or other big results have almost always worked alone" and comparing them to a group of people who die a "grisly" death in a fictional TV series, before you begin a lecture, isn't educational.
[0]: Sadaghdar's original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TTEFF0D8SA
[1]: Dr. Lewin's response video 1: https://youtu.be/AQqYs6O2MPw
[2]: Dr. Lewin's response video 2: https://youtu.be/ototTU5NUNA
[3]: Dr. Lewin's response video 3: https://youtu.be/d_XqrZo5_7Y
[4]: Sadaghdar's last video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9LuVBfwvzA