Scott actually had some good thoughts about D_Wave at some point. A year or so ago, D-Wave actually gave him a personal tour of the place, and convinced him tha

Scott actually had some good thoughts about D_Wave at some point. A year or so ago, D-Wave actually gave him a personal tour of the place, and convinced him that they were legitimately doing good research (He wrote about this in his blog: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954 ). But things change over time, and with a lot of the largely unwarranted hype recently, he's opinion of them has changed