Stuart_Armstrong comments on The Crackpot Offer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 September 2007 05:54:54PM 9 points [-]

But the key question is: what were the clearest signals at the time, the sort of signals you had a chance to notice and recognize?

In my case, it was the fact that brilliant mathematicians had tried to prove these results for generations. No matter how brilliant I think myself, it would be unlikely for me to have found a simple proof where everyone else had failed.