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by fallingknife 377 days ago
The most damning part to me is that Mochizuki dismissed Joshi's work and insulted it. That's a crazy response to someone trying to improve on his theory, and shows more of a religious belief that a mathematical conclusion.
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there are so many cases of genius weirdos that it seems unfair to judge them using a commoner social framework.

moreover we only have very partial information about the whole thing.

we simply have no idea and can't honestly deduce nothing of value. this was a funny read but i'll forget it in maybe 10 minutes.