Comment by d--b
19 hours ago
Don’t you feel any joy that you get to see the proof and not die with that mystery unsolved?
Don’t you feel any relief that you won’t obsess on this any longer and not lose more hours on this than you already have?
These are genuine questions. I know I spent a good amount of time thinking about P vs NP, and that sometimes I go back to it just to realize I’ll never solve it. I’d feel that knowing the proof would feel more like a liberation, a weight lifted off my shoulders than something being taken away from me.
I never lost a single hour thinking about this problem. Those were all hours that I gained.
You are really excelling in this thread. Thank you for your insights and wisdom, I'm really enjoying everything you are contributing.
Seconded
Not OP, but Nietzsche wrote thus in Beyond Good and Evil: “Ultimately one loves one’s desires and not that which is desired.” I, personally, find this to be very much the case; and I suspect that it is a feeling common, albeit not universal, among the intellectually inclined towards their problems.
"Knowing the proof" or "knowing the boolean result"?