James Donald writes:
Timothy C. May writes
... if P = NP, then fast factoring methods may be found (fast = polynomial in length).
In the highly unlikely event that P = NP then we have also solved, as an almost trivial special case, the problems of true artificial intelligence, artificial consciousness, and artificial perception, and the failure of one particular form of crypto will not be noticed in the midst of such radical changes.
When was AI proved NP? AFAIK, definitions of intelligence and consciousness aren't even generally agreed on. Consciousness especially. Any citations on this claim? The only place I've heard this before was your claim on the Extropians list last year that AI required solving NP problems (and that a good answer would not work), therefore classical computers couldn't do it, but quantum computers could, and therefore the mind is based on quantum mechanics and AI won't work.