you ever learn that something is an open problem and be personally offended on behalf of the collective intellectual prowess of humanity
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right now i'm thinking about quantum gravity but there are much easier-looking problems. like: the number of n-step self-avoiding walks on a square lattice is known to grow like (const)^n (times a power of n) and we don't know the value of the constant even conjecturally???
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but seriously how is quantum gravity not something that von neumann knocked out while he was on the toilet one day smh
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implementation can be an open problem too!
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I always get irrationally annoyed whenever I see people on TV using giant touchscreens that have like 1000ms latency, like surely TV-sized touchscreens have got to be a solved issue by now
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Hahaha, I don't consider our intellectual prowess to be that big. But I concur, in that there's something in learning that there's an open problem.
Hunger, perhaps? Curiosity. Wonder. And wondering how the world in which the answer is __ might look like (my fav? P vs NP)
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On that topic:
- An excellent exploration of 5 different worlds, depending on the answer: is this by Russell Impagliazzo: haslab.uminho.pt/infoblender/fi
- I don't think P = NP.
- In fact I think there are one-way functions.
- So I think we live in one of the two last worlds of R.I.
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