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#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

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What Are the Classes You Learned in Computer Science?

P is the class of problems that you can solve with a deterministic algorithm. If your algorithm is linear time, like adding numbers, okay, that problem is in P. The next super important class is called NP and it stands for non-determable polynomial. So if you can easily check the answer to a computational problem, does that mean that you can also easily find the answer? Right.

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