bentarm comments on New Year's Predictions Thread (2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bentarm 03 January 2011 01:47:35AM 3 points [-]

I'm definitely willing to put $300 to $100 on Riemann not being proved - even knowing that you may have some relevant insider knowledge.

I guess one issue is that we couldn't expect to know for sure by this time next year if it had been proved or not - I'd be willing to go with something like "by January 1 2012, no preprint will exist of an essentially correct proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (in ZFC)".

Comment author: JoshuaZ 03 January 2011 03:57:49AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, multiple people have called me out on RH, and thinking about it more, I'm probably was just being way too underconfident.