[Xmd5a]

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1bmp1vk/very_salty_mo...

Lot of gems in this thread. My favorite:

>>>After Mochizuki said that Scholze-Stix were “profoundly ignorant,” I’m starting to think that this phrase is a weird form of high praise from Mochizuki.

>>I feel like the most logical strategy for Mochizuki right now is to diss. Due to the currently prevalent (and not altogether unjustified) attitude towards Mochizuki and his "cult", any praise from him will condemn what he praises to oblivion, because anyone that he praises is guilty of being part of his "fan club" simply by association. In a way, this helps to give the perception that Joshi is "independent" and still worthy of being taken seriously, though Scholze has already been dismissive of Joshi's work from the beginning.

>Wow the implications of this perspective. Theatrical and operatic. If/when Joshi’s work is vindicated, Mochizuki comes out of the shadows and says “I’m sorry son I completely raked you through the coals so that you would gain sympathy and some credibility in the eyes of the wider mathematical community, so that eventually your ideas would be recognized and hence mine as well”. I would watch the fuck out of this movie.

[Xmd5a]

    They've surrounded me. Cameras in every corner.
    Every move dissected in blogs, forums, peer-reviewed takedowns.
    "Cult leader". "Crank". "Outcast".
    Good. Let them watch.
    
    I'll solve equations with my right hand... and write names with my left.
    I'll take a potato chip... and eat it. [CRUNCH echoing like thunder]
    
    If I praise Joshi, he's tainted—marked as one of mine. Dismissed by association.
    But if I drag him... if I bury him in scorn... then they listen.
    Then they think, "Maybe he's different. Maybe he's not one of them.""
    I'll throw him under the bus... and save him!
    
    And the witness to my alibi... is the mathematical community itself.
    [A flicker of Scholze's blog. Stix's preprint. Joshi's strained silence.]
    They're all watching.
    
    They won't get it now.
    But when the theorems land... when every insult has aged into irony...
    
    ...they'll see it was all part of the proof.