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Re:P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers by erichocean on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:45PM (#19725429)
I personally distrust all non-constructive proofs as a matter of principle, and can't think of a single one I would actually miss in practice, let alone one I find convincing. They all smack of begging the question to me.

I especially distrust non-constructive proofs that involve first constructing objects in an impossible manner (like, say, sorting an infinite set of infinitely long bit strings—I'm looking at you, Cantor)—and then (ab-)using the reader's intuition about actual things you can construct to "prove" nonsense about things you clearly can't.

Which is a long way of saying that I'll only accept a constructive proof that P != NP (or vice versa).

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