[startigerjen]

This attack on Nielsen's paper is crackpottery / academic revenge porn by John Synons. To base an attack on Nielsen on frickin Acerfur is using an undergrad who hasn't passed his first semester yet to take on a PhD student who graduated in physics and math summa cum laude. Nonsense.

[muglug]

A lot of people who know mathematics say Nielsen’s paper is riddled with errors. I regret sharing it here.

> Undergrad who hasn’t passed his first semester yet

Not sure what you’re talking about. According to his wiki bio he’s done two years at Cambridge. He posted Maths questions from the 1B tripos exam, and was smart enough to get an OpenAI internship.

Whereas it seems like the author of this paper has never been hired anywhere by any company or institution — the "Center for Topological Physics" listed seems to exist only as a website.