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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:31:28 UTC No. 16584108
I want you to play out a scenerio.
A 200-page LaTeX PDF appears on /pol/, titled something like
>"P=NP PROVEN. Your move, glowniggers."
The post includes an efficient polynomial-time algorithm for solving SAT (or another NP-complete problem), which means every modern encryption scheme is dead the moment someone implements it. Assume it's legit and airtight.
What happens next?
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:39:43 UTC No. 16584358
If it's like the last time it happened, it gets completely ignored for 7 years until the only actual mathematician who ever saw it decides to write it up and give you an anonymous co-author credit.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:46:16 UTC No. 16584386
>>16584358
>and give you an anonymous co-author credit.
mh, what is Anonymous's Erdős number?
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:53:07 UTC No. 16584396
Assuming I have the ability to verify it, I rewrite the proof and submit it to Arxiv, where hopefully a real mathematician can also verify it
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:27:26 UTC No. 16584906
>>16584108
Depends, do they solve SAT in O(nlogn)? We're fucked.
O(n^15)? Meh.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:59:12 UTC No. 16584985
>>16584108
Only if it gets enough bait and suddenly some autist looks into it. Imagine giving some alt right group the most powerful tool in the world. What could go wrong?
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:01:25 UTC No. 16585339
>>16584108
>unleashing digital armageddon on /pol/ for shits and giggles
It would be very funny, but also would entirely fuck the world up. OP would have about half an hour to laugh to himself about it before feeling a black sack going over his head and being dragged into the party bus. He would never be heard from again but given that he's a /pol/tard, nothing of value would be lost