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> You cannot disagree with "over/under-rated" because there's no official "rating" method. (A) That's not going to stop anyone; (B) the claim can easily be obv
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> You cannot disagree with "over/under-rated" because there's no official "rating" method.
(A) That's not going to stop anyone; (B) the claim can easily be obviously false. For example, Taylor Swift is underrated.
We have here an example of problem (B); P versus NP is possibly the single most famous problem in computer science. It isn't underrated.
- vasekrozhon 2y agoThis is just me being bad at English. I now rewrote the first paragraph of the blog post to hopefully make it clear that I am just claiming that our nonstandard way of viewing P vs NP is underrated, not the problem itself. :)
- gosub100 2y ago(A) it's going to stop attacks, because people are learning and adapting to having their ideas challenged. it's easier to use weasel words than it is to study language and make a persuasive argument. Your claim is false. (B) anything can be "obviously false" under contrived/extreme situations. try again with "Sting is underrated" and suddenly you can easily argue it either way. Try using an argument that doesn't rely on p-values being at the 3+ sigma levels, but of course you won't because you know that will invalidate your position.