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MrMind comments on Open thread, Oct. 19 - Oct. 25, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Clarity 21 October 2015 01:11:46AM 1 point [-]

I've finally gotten to reading a bunch of MIRI papers. I don't pretend to understand as they are meant to be understood. Can it be predicted whether a maths problem is solved, solvable, unsolved or unsolvable? I feel really...dismayed and discouraged reading through MIRI's work. I feel as though they are trying to solve questions that cannot be solved. Though, many famous maths problem go from unsolved to solved, and I struggled with high school maths so I certainly would prefer to defer to some impressive reasoning from you, my peers at LessWrong before I abandon my support for MIRI.

Comment author: MrMind 21 October 2015 06:57:26AM 1 point [-]

Can it be predicted whether a maths problem is solved, solvable, unsolved or unsolvable?

Eh, not really. Rice's theorem.