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Comment by EmilStenstrom

2 months ago

The reason novelty matters for mathematics is that they strictly deduplicate all claims. If someone claim they proved something that we already knew was solved, than that wouldn't be considered novelty. Novelty and deduplication is the combo here. This is not true for blog posts.

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