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Me too. I kind of expected a dystopian article where people in 2048 are so badly educated that the most advanced math they can do is count U.S. states one by on
by Al-Khwarizmi 9y ago
Me too. I kind of expected a dystopian article where people in 2048 are so badly educated that the most advanced math they can do is count U.S. states one by one!
Kind of disappointed it's not that, to be honest :)
- tomahunt 9y agoI was expecting a maths where quantum computation had taken over analytic number theory and theorems could be proved using brute force enumeration.Or something
- Filligree 9y agoQuantum computers can't do that. Not even in principle. :p
- whatshisface 9y agoIf you take just one piece of information from this blog: Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once (The subtitle of Aaronson's blog.) https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/