Like The Lorax, With More Formal Mathematics

Scott Aaronson speaks for the computer scientists, partly in response to the same Times piece that I blogged about recently.

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I don't like his answers. He also says that the examples don't have the flavor of pure math, but they bloody do. They're not even new examples: Turing machines are from 1930s. Computational complexity was founded in the 70s.