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Here's two lists of ways to filter. They're heuristics, but they work well. One for general mathematical proofs: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 http:

by j2kun 13y ago

Here's two lists of ways to filter. They're heuristics, but they work well. One for general mathematical proofs: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 One specific to P != NP: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458

Sniffnoy 13y ago
Two notes on these: 1. On the first one, note also numbers 11 and 12 Scott mentions in the comments. 2. The second is not always so specific to P vs. NP (and indeed has some overlap with the first -- #1 on the second list is a stricter version of #3 from the first). #3 and #4 for instance could be applied to lots of hard open problems, #6 to really any hard open problem, and #5 is basically fully general.