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> you will be very hesitant to accept results from a new paper they put on arXiv until your community has vetted the result.

Forgive my ignorance but I thought that was SOP for all papers. Is it not?

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Well not really, right? Let's suppose some well known, well respected author that has a history of correct results puts up a new paper. I (and I think most people) will assume that the result is correct. We start to apply more doubt once the claimed result is a solution to a longstanding open problem, or importantly, if the researcher has a spotty track record for correctness (in math/TCS) or falsifying results (in experimental fields).

But really we shouldn't be talking about math errors and falsification in the same category.

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