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Bo102010 comments on TV's "Elementary" Tackles Friendly AI and X-Risk - "Bella" (Possible Spoilers) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Bo102010 23 November 2014 05:33:05AM *  2 points [-]

I enjoyed the episode also. The show is consistently solid, which is quite impressive - I don't think there's been an episode that's really low quality. The peaks aren't very high, but there are no valleys to speak of...

There a laughable P vs. NP-themed episode in a previous season in which mathematicians use their proof to hack computers, but other than that the episode was watchable.

Comment author: VAuroch 26 November 2014 04:04:38AM 1 point [-]

Other than the tacit assumption in that episode that a resolution to P v. NP would necessarily be P=NP, that episode seemed on the money to me. The uses they mentioned for crypto that could be broken with a fast NP-solver are all real things.