Re: "Getting to experience life" is not a benefit to animals

On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 12:27:05=E2=80=AFPM UTC+2, Derek wrote:
> Good work!

I appreciate the thoughts, Derek. It will be a bit of a "lifestyle change",=
 as my mum put it, and I certainly hope I can maintain enough energy to not=
 only make a good impression with my performance at the new job but also ge=
t done everything that I want to get done with the other stuff, but I'm def=
initely still in the early stages of feeling excited about the new situatio=
n, so let's hope that the energy levels from that can stay sustainable over=
 the long term. I'm not exactly clear at this stage how much room the contr=
act will leave to take a bit of time off at Christmas but we will probably =
go ahead and visit my parents in Sydney regardless. It will be Dad's 70th b=
irthday a couple of days before Christmas.

There are three maths projects in the pipeline of a pretty "big" nature and=
 the first one I was thinking of going public with sometime soon would be a=
n attempted demonstration of inconsistency of Reinhardt cardinals with ZF (=
yes, that big idea I had back in December 2017, but tidied up so as to actu=
ally work properly this time), and if all goes well then as of say August o=
r September I will make that one public on a certain platform where colleag=
ues will provide informal "pre-peer-review", which if favourable will incre=
ase the chances that a top journal will have a serious look at it for actua=
l peer review. Must proceed with extreme caution of course, to make sure th=
at there are no mistakes. It would be totally reasonable for Jon to sarcast=
ically express skepticism that any of these "big ideas" will come good... b=
ut since I think they hold water... I do what I do, because that's just wha=
t you do. In any case, no matter what happens here, it's obviously totally =
fair to call the Philosophia Mathematica publication and the interest it ge=
nerated a definite win.