Scott Aaronson quotes
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“If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,†no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.”
-- Scott AaronsonSource : "Reasons to Believe". Personal blog post, www.scottaaronson.com. September 04, 2006.
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“If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.”
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“If you always win, then you're probably doing something wrong.”
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“Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash equilibrium.”
-- Scott AaronsonSource : "Malthusianisms". www.scottaaronson.com. August 15, 2009.
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“Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.”
-- Scott Aaronson
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