Post #4479968
2026-08-09 21:28 UTC
This from Scott Aaronson was good:
"Just like the more AI does, the less patience I have for arguing with anonymous blog commenters who treat any benefits from AI as some weird future hypothetical that it’s my job to prove, so it is with quantum advantage. Scalable fault-tolerance is still in the future, actual usefulness is still a question, but pending some breakthrough in complexity theory, the reality of quantum advantage is no longer a live question."
(in response to Qedma and IBM showing quantum advantage on simulating Floquet dynamics with a 74-qubit IBM device, with corroboration on Quantinuum hardware)
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9979
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24937
#quantum
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@darkuncle@infosec.exchange 2026-08-09 21:30
also really liked what he had to say about Epsilon Camp (teaching comp sci to middle schoolers): "The whole thing is conducted, not in ignorance, but in conscious defiance of the looming tsunami, that AI can already do just about all the fun puzzles discussed at such a camp better than humans any can, and that it might leave no point to human-led mathematical research by the time these brilliant kids are adults. Even the kids understand that. The kids and their parents come out of a conviction that, if anything has value in the world, this does—that as long as nerdy humans are alive and reproducing, this is what nerdy humans are here to do. To learn."