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I like the idea of this list. Some others: - Quantum supremacy - HIV vaccine - Synthetic life - Discovery of ET life - P vs NP solution
by FriedPickles 3y ago
I like the idea of this list. Some others:
- Quantum supremacy
- HIV vaccine
- Synthetic life
- Discovery of ET life
- P vs NP solution
- dstroot 3y agoLow cost carbon capture
- p1mrx 3y agoBonus points if the ET life is broadcasting useful information.
- rnk 3y agoI'd settle for explaining what all these UAPs are, what are they doing?
- zack-m 3y agoI like the idea of the list as well. Anyone know of resources that are on a similar theme? Only rethinkx “rethinking humanity” report comes to mind.
- jojobas 3y agoLinux on desktop should be up there. /s
- Tainnor 3y ago> P vs NP solution If it's proven to be the case that P != NP, it would hardly change much on the grand scale of things as generally, that's what most people believe anyway. In particular, the world continues to function mostly in the same way (since, even if it was the case that P = NP, we haven't found any polynomial reductions yet, so we're effectively living in a P != NP world). Of course, for mathematics and CS, this would be huge, because the techniques used in a proof would likely be very interesting and novel. If it's proven to be the case that P = NP, then it remains to be seen whether this knowledge can be turned into actually efficient algorithms (polynomial algorithms are not all efficient in practice). If that is the case, I think it might have more downsides than upsides, since all of cryptography would collapse.
- brohee 3y agoThere is a promising HIV vaccine in trial (eOD-GT8 60-mer), but it will take an extremely long time to assess, but given how efficient tri-therapies and PREP are, this is certainly not a revolution.