JAG mentioned that P=NP, if your processor speed is increasing exponentially. Like the one you’re using right now! Don’t you buy a new computer, with an exponentially faster processor every few years? QED. Cool. I don’t see how P=NP implies that AI is possible, though.

He mentioned that this idea was originally from a guy named Ed Fredkin who writes papers about this kind of thing all the time. Here’s another site about these kind of ideas. This Fredkin guy seems like a “real deal” version of Wolfram: He thinks a lot (and writes actual papers, not just long, vague books) about what it would mean if the Universe is actually, at the lowest levels, discrete and algorithmic.