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Comment by intrasight

2 hours ago

> a topic with an unusual level of specification

Solving cancer also has an unusual level of specification. Many real world problems have that characteristic.

> Solving cancer also has an unusual level of specification.

Where did you read that?

"Cancer" is not just a single disease, even though we layman use the term that way. Cancer is a family of diseases, each probably having their own specific solution, but even in each of these individual diseases, there is no specification at the level of any open maths problem.