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by TeMPOraL 2697 days ago
Welp, Taleb's argument is "scientism", pure and simple.

A lot of interesting problems in real world seem NP-complete, and we deal with them just fine. NP-complete doesn't mean "any wrong step can kill you"; it means we need to be satisfied with almost, but not quite, optimal solutions.