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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
I know some people are skeptical of Google’s Willow announcement (the editorial insertion of a reference to the computation happening in parallel universes didn’t help). But I can’t shake the feeling that we’ve witnessed the Chat GPT moment of quantum computing
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Nico
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I actually really liked the multiverse point. Because this is exactly what it is. Hard to understand but this is just exactly it.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
The issue with it is that it’s not in the technical paper, only in the blog post, which appears to have been editorialized for sensationalism over accuracy. As much as I enjoy the multiverse interpretation, a more mundane one is that quantum computing taps into more dimensions of available compute than classical computers, but that doesn’t require infinitely many universes to coexist alongside ours, from which we somehow steal computing cycles
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shazow
@shazow.eth
I feel it's kinda like saying that it requires infinitely many universes to operate our universe?? It makes no sense. A single molecule is able to fully compute its own state, yet it would take a bazillion years for a classical computer to "fully" compute the state of that molecule. They're not fungible computations?
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Maybe a better analogy: Imagine trying to convince a warehouse of monkeys playing Factorio to build a simple calculator in Factorio. Then you pull out an abacus and claim that because it's quintillion times more efficient that we must be pulling compute from the underworld.
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