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It's true I did not understand you were joking, but I didn't personally malign you either. If you are referring to the word "moron", I didn't call you a moron; I was shocked that you thought P vs. NP was so trivial, and asked whether you therefore thought everyone puzzling over it was a moron.



I didn't say you maligned me. You implied others were morons (or, at least that I would think that).

You should be directing your disbelief at Feynman's remains. He is the one that made the claim. I just explained the joke.

Anyway, it is still true that the physical model of P != NP is definitionally trivial.


As for whether "the physical model of P != NP is definitionally trivial", I suppose it depends on what "the physical model" is, but I don't see any physical reason why it should trivially be impossible to decide the Boolean satisfiability problem in polynomial time... Why shouldn't there be some algorithm to do so?


I didn't malign others, either, as I didn't call anyone a moron... Yes, it's true I implied that you might think that others who puzzled over P vs. NP were morons. I was, after all, laboring under the belief that you thought P vs. NP was trivial. Is that a malignment?

Anyway. Nevermind that. Feynman joked that P was trivially not equal to NP? Where can I find that joke given by Feynman?


>Where can I find that joke given by Feynman?

Approximately 6 parents up this comment tree.

I'll address your other comment here (HN has an inexplicably bad rate limit):

The physical model is the literal characters:

P != NP

:)


I mean a cite that Feynman made that joke; where can I find that?



https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12019310

I wouldn't consider it authoritative though.




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