'NIMDC — not in my deductive closure': engineer jokes about wanting complexity theory redone

zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-28

zetalyrae quips that we need an alternative axiomatization of complexity theory without its ugly results, coining NIMDC (Not In My Deductive Closure) — a jab at how researchers react to theorems they dislike, riffing on recent chatter about an internal model allegedly disproving the Exponential Time Hypothesis.

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