Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Existential Risk and Public Relations - Less Wrong

36 Post author: multifoliaterose 15 August 2010 07:16AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 August 2010 04:33:21PM 8 points [-]

Scott says that he thinks P != NP is easier / likely to come first.

Comment author: XiXiDu 18 August 2010 05:56:50PM 5 points [-]

Here an interview with Scott Aaronson:

After glancing over a 100-page proof that claimed to solve the biggest problem in computer science, Scott Aaronson bet his house that it was wrong. Why?

Comment author: bcoburn 21 August 2010 04:11:01PM 2 points [-]

It's interesting that you both seem to think that your problem is easier, I wonder if there's a general pattern there.

Comment author: ciphergoth 21 August 2010 04:36:27PM 7 points [-]

What I find interesting is that the pattern nearly always goes the other way: you're more likely to think that a celebrated problem you understand well is harder than one you don't know much about. It says a lot about both Eliezer's and Scott's rationality that they think of the other guy's hard problems as even harder than their own.