Re:20 Years Later
by anyfoo on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @10:23PM
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I get what you mean, but halting problem is the wrong analogy. The halting problem is proven to be unsolvable, nobody’s looking for “solutions”.
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Re:20 Years Later
by colejohnson66 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @10:44PM
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Would P=NP be a better example? Everyone keeps throwing time at it, but it seems almost everyone’s given up.
A better analogy might be two kids standing at the bottom of a tree arguing about what the fruit tastes like, but they’re too small to jump or climb to get the fruit and find out.
It’s not wrong to want to find out what the fruit tastes like. Both kids have good ideas about what it might taste like, and there are many such plausible ideas. But the tree is tall, and remains out of their reach, and all they can do is speculate. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of other interesting things they could be doing.