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3rd best player ever

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no.1 and 2 is obviously between maxwell and myself (i'm no.1)

poll includes the top candidates for the next best.

who's the better player
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Crypto
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Gira
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Fantastic
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Soben
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Jaguar
about 7 years

Recidivism says

If you know that it MAY BE impossible, even that it is LIKELY to be impossible, you are welcome to call the challenge improbable, which it is.

I'm only speaking in FACTS.

You are not allowed to call it impossible. Also I really don't care to discuss this with you, I basically just think that you want to talk about computer science. Go right ahead.


Then you aren't allowed to call it possible...
about 7 years

shady12 says

It may be impossible to prove or disprove the CS hypothesis. That's what I was trying to convey a few minutes ago.


I don't think Recidivism could handle another layer despite it just making this whole thing more funny.
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shady12 says


Recidivism says

Well my factual statement that the million dollar challenge is possible, which is completed when the CS hypothesis or whatever-the-f.uck is proven OR proven wrong, cannot possibly be wrong by virtue of it being a factual statement and not an opinion.


What's funny is that this is actually the only thing I've been trying to tell you you're wrong about.


If you know that it MAY BE impossible, even that it is LIKELY to be impossible, you are welcome to call the challenge improbable, which it is.

I'm only speaking in FACTS.

You are not allowed to call it impossible. Also I really don't care to discuss this with you, I basically just think that you want to talk about computer science. Go right ahead.
about 7 years

Recidivism says

That's fine, we can include that. But it also has to include the assertion you made that the challenge is not possible, which you definitely said in clear terms


If you can find me saying this in the thread, requiring no magic shifting of the meaning of words on your end, I would love to include it.
about 7 years
It may be impossible to prove or disprove the CS hypothesis. That's what I was trying to convey a few minutes ago.
about 7 years
Your argument would work if that was what you said, but you instead told shady that finding an efficient algorithm and solving the challenge that way is "very possible" and again that is likely untrue.

Backpedal city.
about 7 years

Recidivism says

Well my factual statement that the million dollar challenge is possible, which is completed when the CS hypothesis or whatever-the-f.uck is proven OR proven wrong, cannot possibly be wrong by virtue of it being a factual statement and not an opinion.


What's funny is that this is actually the only thing I've been trying to tell you you're wrong about.
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Tatami says

Okay, let's start on it together.

"Current mathematical opinion on the P ?= NP problem is that P does not equal NP, making finding a polynomial time solution for NP-Complete problems impossible if they are correct.[1]"

Works Cited:

[1] William I. Gasarch. "The Second P=?NP poll" SIGACT News. 74. https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll2012.pdf

I think it's ready for submission


That's fine, we can include that. But it also has to include the assertion you made that the challenge is not possible, which you definitely said in clear terms. In fact, that must be the title.

We can literally sit down and put this together. Either you're going to be a college dropout published in a mathematics journal, or you're going to realize just how out of your league you are in even trying to make an assertion like that.

Which do you find more likely?
about 7 years
Okay, let's start on it together.

"Current mathematical opinion on the P ?= NP problem is that P does not equal NP, making finding a polynomial time solution for NP problems impossible if they are correct.[1]"

Works Cited:

[1] William I. Gasarch. "The Second P=?NP poll" SIGACT News. 74. https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll2012.pdf

I think it's ready for submission
deletedabout 7 years
Let me tell you something that IS impossible:

A fact being "wrong". To be "wrong", it first has to be an opinion.
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Tatami says


Recidivism says

Here I am, belittling someone for thinking that Clayton Math's challenge cannot be solved, without even understanding the thing you are accusing me of believing.


That is indeed what happens when you appeal to authority without understanding what the authority thinks, yep.


Well my factual statement that the million dollar challenge is possible, which is completed when the CS hypothesis or whatever-the-f.uck is proven OR proven wrong, cannot possibly be wrong by virtue of it being a factual statement and not an opinion.
about 7 years

Recidivism says

Here I am, belittling someone for thinking that Clayton Math's challenge cannot be solved, without even understanding the thing you are accusing me of believing.


That is indeed what happens when you appeal to authority without understanding what the authority thinks, yep.
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Tatami says

Actually, you could send a correct proof and they still wouldn't do that.

The Clay Math Institute does not directly review potential solutions. (Not that I ever proposed anything resembling that)


We can do a different mathematical journal then. Clayton Math would have been poetic, but any works.
deletedabout 7 years
Let me give you my opinion on P=NP really quick

I don't have one, because I don't understand computer science, and I can admit when I don't understand something.
about 7 years
Actually, you could send a correct proof and they still wouldn't do that.

The Clay Math Institute does not directly review potential solutions. (Not that I ever proposed anything resembling that)
deletedabout 7 years
We're going to teach you the difference between likely and certain, improbable and impossible, and you'll be a better man for it.
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Tatami says


Recidivism says

So you are posed with a challenge from a mathematical institute offering a million dollars to whomever finds a solution, which clearly they think is possible, and instead of spending your effort finding a solution you spend that effort trying to prove that it isn't possible.


Nice, that's how millions are made for sure. You go dude, you're going places.


Here you are, belittling shady for thinking that someone should try to disprove P=NP, which most of CS theorists and the Clay Math Institute both think is more likely to happen.


Here I am, belittling someone for thinking that Clayton Math's challenge cannot be solved, without even understanding the thing you are accusing me of believing.
deletedabout 7 years
Great,

I'm going to compile, word for word without any of my opinions, your posts in this thread into an actual formatted paper titled "Proof that Clayton Math's One Million Dollar Challenge Cannot be Completed" and then I'm going to send you the rejection letter.

I'll be doing you a favor. We're going to knock you down a peg now before this "I'm a genius who couldn't even obtain a bachelor's degree" fantasy of yours gets you in real trouble.
about 7 years

Recidivism says

So you are posed with a challenge from a mathematical institute offering a million dollars to whomever finds a solution, which clearly they think is possible, and instead of spending your effort finding a solution you spend that effort trying to prove that it isn't possible.


Nice, that's how millions are made for sure. You go dude, you're going places.


Here you are, belittling shady for thinking that someone should try to prove it imossible, which most of CS theorists and the Clay Math Institute both think is more likely to happen, and would win the challenge.

You clearly didn't know the nature of the challenge and thought that a positive solution was what all the scientists thought. Just admit that, dude.
about 7 years

Recidivism says

you purporting that, as a college dropout, you have magically figured out a source of major contention among mathematicians with doctorates.


[citation needed]

Me saying "An efficient algorithm is likely impossible, according to current CS theorist opinion" makes no claims of my own. I was again the one who had to point out to you that the challenge not only accepts "Impossible" as a solution but expects it.
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Tatami says

If we send them in something saying "Peanut butter exists", and we get back a rejection, that statement must have been false. Peanut butter can't exist, the institute agrees.


Okay dude. You clearly care about looking smart here. I don't mind, that's fine.

I'll be private messaging you the rejection letter, which is all that I care about.

Shady12 wanting to show off his college education was a lot more respectable to me than you purporting that, as a college dropout, you have magically figured out a source of major contention among mathematicians with doctorates.

I want you to understand how f.ucking ridiculous that is. That's all I want. I want YOU to understand, not anyone else.
about 7 years

Recidivism says

you said the million dollar challenge is impossible


Too bad this isn't what I said and I was the one who had to point it out to you to begin with that the finding an efficient solution could be impossible, and was the one who told you to begin with that proving such does qualify as a solution, because you didn't know that.
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Tatami says


Recidivism says

How can I have asserted this position when I don't even understand what you just said? Is it even possible for me to have believed this thing I don't understand?


Yes, you asserted the wrong position, because you did not understand it.

If only you would just admit you held the wrong position to begin with, but you're too determined on salvaging your Smart Guy cred by trying to say "See, Tatami's not so smart overall!" when no one actually cares how smart or dumb I am or where I go to school at all, other than you.


Dude I am probably one of the least liked people left on this website right now, I made a 100 page thread about how much I loved my cheating ex-girlfriend, the fact that you think I'm out to uphold some kind of imaginary reputation for being smart I probably don't even have is f.ucking hilarious.

Literally all I care about is that you said the million dollar challenge is impossible and then you wrote a big huge essay of irrelevant CS 101 to back up your point. All I want is for you to realize that, as a college dropout, the Clayton Math Institute and the rest of the educated world doesn't give a flying f.uck about your stupid opinions about how their challenge is not even possible.
about 7 years
If we send them in something saying "Peanut butter exists", and we get back a rejection, that statement must have been false. Peanut butter can't exist, the institute agrees.
about 7 years

Recidivism says

Wonderful. I'll get back to you with the rejection letter, and your shame-faced lack of response will be like a delicacy that I savor


Yes, because it is not an attempt at a solution, but is instead a sweeping statement as to the nature of the problem, which the institute wholeheatedly agrees with.