Famous conjecture by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
This section groups conjectures that are famous, solved or unsolved.
They are usually conjectures that have a strong intuitive reasoning, but took a very long time to prove, despite great efforts.
Deletionism by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
The problem of deletionism is that it removes users' confidence that their precious data will be safe. It's almost like having a database that constantly resets itself. Who will be willing to post on a website that deletes the content they created for free half of the time thus wasting people's precious time?
Closurism by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Closurism is a term invented by Ciro Santilli to refer to content moderation policies that lock threads in online forums, preventing people from adding new comments from that point onward.
This is similar to deletionism but a bit less worse, as the pre-existing content is maintained. But new relevant content that comes up cannot be added in the future, so it is still bad.
The outcome of closurism is that new forum posts must then be made about up-to-date aspects of the topic. But then those may fail to reach the same PageRank, so most people never get the new information, or create new posts leading to useless duplication of work.
Hand-waving by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
First we hand-wave some intuition. Then we prove. That's the way to teach.
Film by country by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Our definition is: about which culture a film is. Not who paid for it.
Functional function by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
This is about functions that take functions as input or output.

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