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What a time to be alive honestly. Can’t know what one will wake up to

I assumed all new breakthroughs in advanced complexity theory would be theoretical and non-constructive, as in "we prove that this algorithm must exist but we do not provide it".

I'm genuinely shook at today's results, specially at the fact that there _is_ a constructive algorithm.

> superpolynomial

I've got some reading to do it seems...

Polynomial is something like exp(n log x), where x is the problem size. Exponential is something like exp(x). Superpolynomial but subexponential is roughly when the exponent is between n log x and x. An exponent of (log x)^2 would do the trick.

The actual exponent OpenAI found was x/sqrt(x).

x/sqrt(log(x)), I believe.