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While Scott Aaronson is highly respected, I think we are rushing in to put down D-Wave guys. They seem very conservative in their claims. We should celebrate th

by sytelus 11y ago

While Scott Aaronson is highly respected, I think we are rushing in to put down D-Wave guys. They seem very conservative in their claims. We should celebrate that we have come even this far that we are actually constructing these machines that were just research fantasies few decades ago and are at a point where we can even think about doing comparison with best we have built. I don't think anyone in their right mind thinks D-Wave or other QC will replace classical machines in next 5-10 years period. It's the progress that we need to be positive about and build on each other's work.

Strilanc 11y ago
> They seem very conservative in their claims. Hahaha! D-Wave's reputation is one of exaggeration and putting marketing before science. That's how Scott ended up as de-facto "chief D-Wave skeptic": he kept complaining about their exaggerations and the exaggerations of journalists covering them. (The paper being discussed now does actually seem conservative in its claims, but it's by a team at Google; not D-Wave.)