I think Scott is being overly (possibly falsely) modest here. He calls his untestable speculations “entertainment”, whereas a philosophy department would call a similarly deep speculation a PhD thesis. He is a complexity theory expert, and from this point of view anything that is not a theorem or at least a mathematical conjecture is “entertainment”.
I think Scott is being overly (possibly falsely) modest here. He calls his untestable speculations “entertainment”, whereas a philosophy department would call a similarly deep speculation a PhD thesis. He is a complexity theory expert, and from this point of view anything that is not a theorem or at least a mathematical conjecture is “entertainment”.