Scott Aaronson - The Winding Road to Quantum Supremacy









First part in an interview series with Scott Aaronson - this one is on quantum computing - future segments will be on Existential Risk, consciousness (including Scott's thoughts on IIT) and thoughts on whether the universe is discrete or continuous.

See 'Complexity-Theoretic Foundations of Quantum Supremacy Experiments'
https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/quantumsupre.pdf


Bio : Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary areas of research are quantum computing and computational complexity theory.
He blogs at Shtetl-Optimized: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

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