"The first reason is that lots of people are either ignorant of or tendentiously choose to ignore the underlying mathematical facts. These facts include that some problems can be solved by computing machines, and others can't, and that most can't. So whenever you ask whether a problem P can be solved by a computing machine, where P is such that it isn't known that there is an algorithm for solving it, honesty should imply wait-and-see agnosticism.3"
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Is It Possible to Build Dramatically Compelling Interactive Digital Entertainment (in the form, e.g., of computer games)?*1
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