Comment on Open Thread, October 7 - October 12, 2013

Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:08:30 GMT

For example, I might write a post about "Value of Information is asymmetric because the different possible worlds are asymmetric," and I would not expect the body of that post to interest someone who thinks that assertion is obvious.

I think that there might be people who think that the assertion is probably true. If I'm however interested in math I care not only about whether the assertion is true but also about whether your proof of the assertion is correct.

P!=NP is in some sense an obvious assertion but it's still very interesting to search for the proof. Proofs are interesting.

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