Re: P vs NP craziness

From: Anonymous (noone_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:57:44 -0400

tchow@lsa.umich.edu wrote:
>
> I thought the Bringsjord paper might have been an intentional,
> tongue-in-cheek joke, but the Diaby paper certainly isn't.
>

Well, the light tone of the Bringsjord article might lead one to believe
that it's all in jest, although personally I would have gone for
over-the-top seriousness if I were trying to write a P vs. NP parody. I
almost believed it was a joke, myself. But then I noticed on Bringsjord
home page that right under a link to the P=NP article, he has a link to
the article "The modal argument for hypercomputing minds", which has the
same kind of tortured logic and mishmashed arguments (although in a more
serious treatment). So if the P=NP paper is intended as a joke, perhaps
he is parodying himself.

http://www.rpi.edu/~brings/