There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards, and some problems will suddenly move from “impossible” to “obvious”. Move a substantial degree upwards, and all of them will become obvious. Move a huge distance upwards…
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky — “Staring into the Singularity”
There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence.
What reasons do we have for thinking this?
Some true theorems in math have no (finite length) proof. Some computations are proven to require bigger-than-universe resources to compute (and can't be compressed). Don't these qualify as ultimately hard problems?
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