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A kernel's more serious failure is accepting a false statement as true rather than rejecting a true statement as false.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“The cardinal sin for a kernel is to verify false statements as true, which is far worse than rejecting true statements as false.”14:16Report a misattribution
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