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Comment author: shminux 26 August 2014 08:34:55PM 16 points [-]

I think Scott is being overly (possibly falsely) modest here. He calls his untestable speculations "entertainment", whereas a philosophy department would call a similarly deep speculation a PhD thesis. He is a complexity theory expert, and from this point of view anything that is not a theorem or at least a mathematical conjecture is "entertainment".