Should you keep your scientific ideas secret until you're

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Tell someone trustworthy, like mark zuckerberg for example

>>9121848

The historical episode of Tartaglia vs. Cardano, aka the all-time biggest Scoop in the history of science, offers an instructive lesson if you are a person who is in any way active in the sciences and you also care about personal reputation, "getting credit", and so on:

Just put your ideas in the world. Do it ASAP, and immediately. I refer specifically to instantly broadcasting your ideas to the whole world and stamping your name on them just as soon as you have them. This is feasible with the internet, and circumvents the conventional route of the academic journal, which carries the benefit of people who will actually read and vet your thing so that it is actually /right/.

There is a tension here. If you do it TOO soon, then of course you run the risk of being /wrong/, and if you do this too many times, then you will earn a deserved reputation for being a poor scientist, or worse, a crank, or kook. OTOH, if you are too-secretive and too-jealously guard your knowledge (as was true of Tartaglia and other Italian mathematicians), then you know yourself: you will wish to prove your knowledge at some point, and it's only a matter of time until someone else figures out the trick by the context of interacting with those ideas that you do put into the public space.

Based upon the example of Tartaglia, I therefore incline towards the former idea, but then I'm not a PhD with a family to feed and so on, so there you go.

>>9121877
>Tartaglia vs. Cardano
Are there any modern examples?

I've been looking into the Riemann hypothesis myself, were I to come up with a solution I'm all but certain someone would attempt to steal it from me.