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Is it sexist?
Is it modellist?
Is it funny?
Is it plagiarism?
Model 1: But if quantum mechanics isn’t physics in the usual sense — if it’s not about matter, or energy, or waves — then what is it about?
Model 2: Well, from my perspective, it’s about information, probabilities, and observables, and how they relate to each other.
Model 1: That’s interesting!
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“Many commenters seem to assume the pilfered quote is just my expression of the conventional wisdom. Well, it should be, and I wish it were! But as Avi Wigderson pointed out to me, the idea that quantum mechanics is about information rather than waves or particles is still extremely non-standard, and would have been considered insane fifteen years ago.
Update (10/5): This is not to say it’s my idea (as other commenters assumed I was saying)! If any entity can claim “ownership” of the idea, I would think it’s the entire quantum computing and information community. The longer I blog, the more I despair of ever achieving my secondary goal in life, namely for everyone to understand me.
Nowhere near as funny:
“Model 1: Maybe this is trivial, but do you know whether it is possible to give a QCMA protocol for verifying membership in finite groups?
Model 2: It is indeed, and even without plausible group-theoretic assumptions, it makes only polynomically many queries to the group oracle.
Model 1: That’s pretty neat. Makes you wonder if a classical separation between QMA and QCMA is possible.”
from here
how Australian Actresses Are Plagiarizing My Quantum Mechanics Lectures To Sell Printers.
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also jeans
and the controversy
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from Scott Alexander
“You can look at Deep Blue, the Robbins conjecture, Google, most recently Watson – and say that’s not really AI. That’s just massive search, helped along by clever programming. Now this kind of talk drives AI researchers up a wall. They say: if you told someone in the 1960s that in 30 years we’d be able to beat the world grandmaster at chess, and asked if that would count as AI, they’d say of course it’s AI. But now that we know how to do it, it’s no longer AI – it’s just search.”
How long ago does it seem that we were looking at Deep Blue and Watson?