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Perhaps this will be the push we need to finally, seriously consider the possibility that our formalisms of “efficient” and “efficiently verifiable” algorithms correspond to nothing resembling reality, and P \in NP is actually ill-posed.

This has been marginally debated since the mid 90s, when Impagliazzo published the “5 worlds” survey. Occasionally it is brought up in talks about average case analysis. There is occasionally a workshop about it. But it has never really got the attention it deserved. How many more of these results do we need to take it seriously? (Assuming we do indeed certify it.)

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