Terence Tao on Nostr: npub1jxzte…uxjld I have just posted about this on my blog at ...
npub1jxzte0x233rjc04jkqtcrcw56gwyc9vkl2tlucsykuauxejlhzpskuxjld (npub1jxz…xjld) I have just posted about this on my blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/11/08/the-elephant-in-the-room/ , and right on schedule, the debate on Israel and Palestine has shown up to completely illustrate these points.
But in mathematics there is genuine hope. I once publicly debated Ed Nelson's purported proof of the inconsistency of the Peano Axioms, a position that he passionately believed in to his dying day, and ended up reaching agreement: see https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2011/09/the_inconsistency_of_arithmeti.html and also https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05641
But in mathematics there is genuine hope. I once publicly debated Ed Nelson's purported proof of the inconsistency of the Peano Axioms, a position that he passionately believed in to his dying day, and ended up reaching agreement: see https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2011/09/the_inconsistency_of_arithmeti.html and also https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05641