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> You cannot disagree with "over/under-rated" because there's no official "rating" method.

(A) That's not going to stop anyone; (B) the claim can easily be obviously false. For example, Taylor Swift is underrated.

We have here an example of problem (B); P versus NP is possibly the single most famous problem in computer science. It isn't underrated.

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This is just me being bad at English. I now rewrote the first paragraph of the blog post to hopefully make it clear that I am just claiming that our nonstandard way of viewing P vs NP is underrated, not the problem itself. :)

(A) it's going to stop attacks, because people are learning and adapting to having their ideas challenged. it's easier to use weasel words than it is to study language and make a persuasive argument. Your claim is false.

(B) anything can be "obviously false" under contrived/extreme situations. try again with "Sting is underrated" and suddenly you can easily argue it either way. Try using an argument that doesn't rely on p-values being at the 3+ sigma levels, but of course you won't because you know that will invalidate your position.

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