Hacker NewsMar 10

The "JVG algorithm" is crap

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9615

#HackerNews #JVGAlgorithm #Critique #TechNews #AlgorithmDebate #HackerNews #ScottAaronson

The ”JVG algorithm” is crap

Sorry to interrupt your regular programming about the AI apocalypse, etc., and return to the traditional beat of this blog’s very earliest years … but I’ve now gotten multiple mes…

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futo_techFeb 11

The Future of Quantum Computing and AI - Scott Aaronson

https://peertube.futo.org/videos/watch/80e7f60f-a3ad-4af4-9453-fc06fc50cf5a

The Future of Quantum Computing and AI - Scott Aaronson

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N-gated Hacker NewsDec 21
🚀💻 Quantum computers won't magically solve all your problems overnight, folks—sorry to burst that #sci-fi bubble! 🤯 Meanwhile, Scott Aaronson's "imminent" claims are as flip-floppy as a politician's promises. 🙃
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9425 #quantumcomputing #reality #check #ScottAaronson #technews #problem #solving #HackerNews #ngated
More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”

These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn’t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is immi…

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N-gated Hacker NewsSep 28, 2025
🚀 #ShtetlOptimized headlines with a groundbreaking revelation: Quantum computers won't magically solve your Rubik's Cube while you nap! Meanwhile, #HSBC introduces the latest "qombie" threat to humanity, and Scott Aaronson reminds us that amplifying is for volume, not quantum supremacy 🎩.
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9183 #QuantumComputing #RubiksCube #Qombie #ScottAaronson #HackerNews #ngated
The QMA Singularity

A couple days ago, Freek Witteveen of CWI and I posted a paper to the arXiv called “Limits to black-box amplification in QMA.” Let me share the abstract: We study the limitations of bla…

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N-gated Hacker NewsAug 29, 2025
Scott Aaronson's blog post takes us on a bizarre journey where quantum computers don’t magically fix problems, and somehow pivots to K12 education #reform 🧙‍♂️🔮. Meanwhile, the dramatic narrative about a murderous past reads like a rejected Hollywood script 🤦‍♂️.
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9082 #quantumcomputing #K12education #storytelling #ScottAaronson #bizarrejourney #Hollywoodscript #HackerNews #ngated
Deep Zionism

Suppose a man has already murdered most of your family, including several of your children, for no other reason than that he believes your kind doesn’t deserve to exist on earth. The murderer…

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Hacker NewsAug 29, 2025

Deep Zionism

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9082

#HackerNews #DeepZionism #Zionism #Technology #Blog #ScottAaronson #HackerNews

Deep Zionism

Suppose a man has already murdered most of your family, including several of your children, for no other reason than that he believes your kind doesn’t deserve to exist on earth. The murderer…

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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 24, 2025
👨‍🏫🤔 Scott Aaronson tackles the profound question of "How much #math is knowable?" in a #YouTube video, presumably for those who confuse deep philosophical inquiry with a weekend Netflix binge. 📺💡 Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy trying to figure out how many digits of pi we actually need to remember—spoiler: it's less than three. 🥧🔢
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VplMHWSZf5c #philosophy #ScottAaronson #digitsOfPi #knowledge #HackerNews #ngated
Scott Aaronson | How Much Math Is Knowable?

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Hacker NewsApr 15, 2025

I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8805

#HackerNews #I #speak #at #Harvard #as #it #faces #its #biggest #crisis #since #1636 #Harvard #Crisis #Education #PublicSpeaking #ScottAaronson

I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

Every week, I tell myself I won’t do yet another post about the asteroid striking American academia, and then every week events force my hand otherwise. No one on earth—certainly no one who reads t…

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KilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀Mar 6, 2025

This brings me back listening to #StanleyDeans spending time introducing and then reintroducing relativistic parameterization to his #QuantumMechanics class and little side comments on different approaches he found interesting. Ultimately you get comfortable with whatever framework seems to capture features of particular problems in such a way you can understand them better

Harvard Scientist Rewrites The Rules Of Quantum Mechanics with
#ScottAaronson v #JacobBarandes
https://youtu.be/5rbC3XZr9-c?si=jgWy3lbAMIfN1STL

Harvard Scientist Rewrites the Rules of Quantum Mechanics | Scott Aaronson Λ Jacob Barandes

YouTube
Combinatorics and moreFeb 26, 2025

Quantum Computing Skepticism, Part 2: My View and Responses to Skeptical Claims—Featuring John Preskill, Scott Aaronson, Dave Bacon, Aram Harrow, and Boaz Barak

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/quantum-computing-skepticism-part-2-my-view-and-responses-to-skeptical-claims-featuring-john-preskill-scott-aaronson-dave-bacon-aram-harrow-and-boaz-barak/

Quantum Computing Skepticism, Part 2: My View and Responses to Skeptical Claims—Featuring John Preskill, Scott Aaronson, Dave Bacon, Aram Harrow, and Boaz Barak

In a previous post I presented the skeptical views toward quantum computing of Robert Alicki, Michel Dyakonov, Leonid Levin, Oded Goldreich, Liam McGuinness, Moshe Vardi and a few others. As I ment…

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