(13-04-2025, 11:02 AM)asteckley wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Is it just me, or are these wild "I've solved it but I have to keep my brilliance a secret" claims getting noticably more frequent lately?
Maybe. The last two cases that I remember were on Reddit and Tiktok, trying hard to hype their solutions and build expectations by talking a lot without saying anything specific about their methods or results.
It is a good thing that solvers still want to publish papers the old-fashioned way like Kris1212. The younger generation prefers to gather followers (and paid subscriptions) on video sites and social media. The guy on Reddit recorded a video that attempted to explain something. Nobody understood what, maybe because of the broken English or because it was intentional, so diluted and unspecific that it was impossible to guess what it meant. There was a more "successful" attempt a few months ago, by a young American mom who was trending on Tiktok, exchanging feelings with her many followers and promising revelations. It became cult-like, secretive and finally disappeared from public view. I suppose it continued in private: of course you can't talk about the big conspiracy (Dan Brown level++) behind the VM in public.