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I don’t understand why the author insists on being willing to speak with future journalists. He’s a smart person who seems to have come down with a serious case
by padastra 6y ago
I don’t understand why the author insists on being willing to speak with future journalists. He’s a smart person who seems to have come down with a serious case of the dumbs.
- jbay808 6y agoIt's almost certainly thanks only to this particular author's willingness to speak to journalists that the level of journalistic reporting on quantum computers has, for the most part, crawled out of the sticky swamp of absurd miscomprehension onto the gravelly beach of the barely-acceptable.
- mac01021 6y agoAre you confusing Scott Alexander (whatever his real name is) with Scott Aaronson?
- jbay808 6y agoScott Aaronson, quantum computing expert, is the author of this article about Scott Alexander, and the one who insists he will continue to talk to journalists: > On reflection, then, I’ll continue to talk to journalists, whenever I have time, whenever I think I might know something that might improve their story. I’ll continue to rank bend-over-backwards openness and honesty among my most fundamental values. Hell, I’d even talk to Cade for a future story, assuming he’ll talk to me after all the disagreements I’ve aired here!