'If P=NP Turns Out True, It's Already True Now': A Note on Mathematical Discovery
siglesias · x · 2026-10-28
A short philosophical observation about physics and math discoveries: whatever turns out to be true in the future is already true right now—we are living inside the mystery. If P turns out to equal NP, it already does today; we just don't know it yet.
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