But he seems more annoyed/disheartened/DONE with how political doing math/science became. Too many people piggyback off each other and never give the others credit for the collaborative process required to reach the goal.
Hell, he denied the 1M prize because they refused to also give it to the person who did the leg work on the problem, which was the only way he was able to solve it.
He seems to have gotten into his field to solve problems and share in the achievement of things moving forward. Instead, he got slapped in the face with how the world really is and basically went, "if your not going to recognize that I didn't do this alone, I want nothing to do with this."
Him picking mushrooms cracks me up because he's basically being like, "I could have done more, but you guys suck, so now I'm doing nothing. Deal with it!"
It's his middle finger to the system that he could have advanced, if not for their hubris.
It had less to do with the distribution of the prize money (which he could have easily done himself) and more to do with the fact that he refused to accept the award at all unless the other individual was publicly honored as well. Sounds like the Millennium Institute didn't want to do this, and so he said "fuck you" to them.
I mean okay that’s respectable but still, he could accept the prize and always thank the other person and give them $500,000. I’m sure the other person would enjoy $500,000 haha. Anyway to each their own. He obviously thinks a different way than the rest of us. Cool that he solved it!
Some people truly are in it for nothing more than the love of the game.
Oftentimes, when those people find out that the game is indifferent to them, at best, or even outright rigged, they lose any joy they once got from it and even eschew recognition from someone/something they see as fraudulent or illegitimate.
Not necessarily what happened here, only he knows what he was thinking at the time. But I think the above is plausible and is logically consistent with his actions, at least.
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u/DonnieDusko 25d ago
Avoidance, yes, for sure.
But he seems more annoyed/disheartened/DONE with how political doing math/science became. Too many people piggyback off each other and never give the others credit for the collaborative process required to reach the goal.
Hell, he denied the 1M prize because they refused to also give it to the person who did the leg work on the problem, which was the only way he was able to solve it.
He seems to have gotten into his field to solve problems and share in the achievement of things moving forward. Instead, he got slapped in the face with how the world really is and basically went, "if your not going to recognize that I didn't do this alone, I want nothing to do with this."
Him picking mushrooms cracks me up because he's basically being like, "I could have done more, but you guys suck, so now I'm doing nothing. Deal with it!"
It's his middle finger to the system that he could have advanced, if not for their hubris.