Well I probably can't convince you, succinctly, that I'm not just parroting it but maybe you'll decide to care if people you otherwise enjoy talking to are talking to you about this
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The main benefit, in my experience, to learning about complexity classes (P, NP), is understanding when I'm _wasting my time_ trying to solve an impossible problem.
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So even if it takes you a few hours upfront to understand the P=NP problem statement, you'll end up avoiding hours spent thinking up bad/wrong algorithms for NP-complete problems.
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It also teaches you how to _frame_ problems more correctly, which is important if you want a shot at solving them. But I guess in practice you can hire an ex-Ph.D. student to do these things for you.
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omg John don't make me quote Rumsfeld at you
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