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Related (amazing) paper by Scott Aaronson: "NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality" (http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0502072). He proposes "anthropic computing" as a way of solving NP-complete problems in polynomial time: guess an answer, then kill yourself if the answer is wrong.



It would be very eerie if suddenly all the guesses started being right.




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