So many thoughts in my head.
One is "don't feed the trolls". We should probably not reply at all. But of course "we" is an international community of so many people that there will not be one voice.
Also, a colleague pointed out that the statement can be read as the bully showing us the tools with which we they will kill us and let us pick our mode of death.
Also, maybe they are exaggerating a lot because they are on the edge of bankruptcy. Excuse my french, but they have us by the balls at the moment because the dependency that we as the community have on these models grows every day.
They know exactly that they have killed the entire reputation system and most importantly the trust among mathematicians. The divisions are already starting. I hear so many people saying "that other area of math is so over, only MY area is impacted less". Like "pure" vs. "applied" both say that about each other.
Divide et impera is working, people.
I think we should just slow down ourselves, if they don't want to. Ignore them for a month. They put out a solution to a millenium problem. Sure, upload to the arXiv, we'll take a year or five to review. Please stay tuned...
2/2
Thomas Kahle
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