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Scott Aaronson is probably one of the most underrated scientists of our time. He's very approachable and has responded to comments and emails of undergrads like
by pyentropy 7y ago
Scott Aaronson is probably one of the most underrated scientists of our time. He's very approachable and has responded to comments and emails of undergrads like me in a few hours. Not only is he part of the team that practically invented quantum supremacy, but his blog is the most informative blog out there for ethics, morality, nerdiness, theoretical computer science and the philosophical implications of complexity theory.
Y Combinator had a podcast with him which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jrybODBUpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jrybODBUpA
- ivalm 7y agoI enjoy Aaronson's blog/interviews, but he is not an "underrated scientist", he is perhaps an underrated science communicator. Being a science communicator, however, is somewhat unrelated to being a scientist. Looking at his actual scientific work, he is in fact doing good work, but he is not in the same league as, let's say, Peter Shor.
- pyentropy 7y agoI think his BosonSampling method comes very close to Shor's algorithm, and I don't think "leagues" really exist in academic output - but he's not doing good work - he's doing great work.