Comment by philwelch

Love to see the traditional middlebrow dismissal as the top comment. Never change, HN.

> Are you really saying that there is a nice total-ordering of problems by importance to the world, and that the one you're interested happens also to be at the top?

It might be the case that the reason Ilya is “interested in” this problem (to the degree of dedicating almost his entire career to it) is exactly because he believes it’s the most important.