I have therefore reached a decision. From this day forward, my allegiances in the String Wars will be open for sale to the highest bidder. Like a cynical arms merchant, I will offer my computational-complexity and humor services to both sides, and publicly espouse the views of whichever side seems more interested in buying them at the moment. Fly me to an exotic enough location, put me up in a swank enough hotel, and the number of spacetime dimensions can be anything you want it to be: 4, 10, 11, or even 172.9+3πi.

i too, am a scott aaronson fan. his NP-completeness and physical reality is the snarkiest physics paper i have ever read. every now and then scott writes a paper that is a bit more widely accessible, like NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality. And now this one…
https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791
all i ever wanted to know about the intersection of quantum computing, cosmology, complexity theory etc

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