If ETH falls, which conditional lower bounds survive on SETH? Napkin math inside
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-27
AIFlowML poses a complexity-theory question to OpenAI's rrwilliams: if ETH falls, which conditional lower bounds can be rebuilt on SETH and which just break? His napkin math: the exponent shrink factor (log log n)/sqrt(log n) is 0.73 at 1,000 variables and still 0.67 at a billion, before hidden constants — and suggests formal checking in Lean.
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