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by imtringued 898 days ago
>I’m saying this because most people got from their CS degree that NP hardness is practically a death sentence. But it‘s really not true.

It's a death sentence for economists, since they rely on every agent optimizing the entire economy of 8 billion agents in real time. 3 hours for 8 million variables isn't real time.