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The Blog of Scott Aaronson
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My October 7 post
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8389
Published: October 7, 2024 17:09
For weeks I agonized over what, if anything, this post should say. How does one commemorate a tragedy that isn’t over for millions of innocents on either side? How do I add to what friend-of-the-blog Boaz Barak and countless others have already written? Do…
Quantum advantage for NP approximation? For REAL this time?
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8375
Published: October 5, 2024 21:43
The other night I spoke at a quantum computing event and was asked—for the hundredth time? the thousandth?—whether I agreed that the quantum algorithm called QAOA was poised revolutionize industries by finding better solutions to NP-hard optimization…
Sad times for AI safety
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8367
Published: October 1, 2024 17:06
Many of you will have seen the news that Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, the groundbreaking AI safety bill that overwhelmingly passed the California legislature. Newsom gave a disingenuous explanation (which no one on either side of the debate…
The International Olympiad in Injustice
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8356
Published: September 26, 2024 05:41
Today is the day I became radicalized in my Jewish and Zionist identities. Uhhh, you thought that had already happened? Like maybe in the aftermath of October 7, or well before then? Hahahaha no. You haven’t seen nothin’ yet. See, a couple days ago, I was…
Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hype
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8329
Published: September 22, 2024 21:55
So, back in June the White House announced that UCLA would host a binational US/India workshop, for national security officials from both countries to learn about the current status of quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography. It fell to me my…
AI transcript of my AI podcast
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8336
Published: September 22, 2024 15:39
In the comments of my last post—on a podcast conversation between me and Dan Fagella—I asked whether readers wanted me to use AI to prepare a clean written transcript of the conversation, and several people said yes. I’ve finally gotten around to doing…
My podcast with Dan Faggella
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8324
Published: September 15, 2024 17:52
Dan Faggella recorded an unusual podcast with me that’s now online. He introduces me as a “quantum physicist,” which is something that I never call myself (I’m a theoretical computer scientist) but have sort of given up on not being called by others. But…
Quantum fault-tolerance milestones dropping like atoms
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8310
Published: September 10, 2024 17:03
Between roughly 2001 and 2018, I’ve happy to have done some nice things in quantum computing theory, from the quantum lower bound for the collision problem to the invention of shadow tomography. I hope that’s not the end of it. QC research brought me…
In Support of SB 1047
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8269
Published: September 4, 2024 15:49
I’ve finished my two-year leave at OpenAI, and returned to being just a normal (normal?) professor, quantum complexity theorist, and blogger. Despite the huge drama at OpenAI that coincided with my time there, including the departures of most of the people…
Book Review: “2040” by Pedro Domingos
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8256
Published: September 1, 2024 06:23
Pedro Domingos is a computer scientist at the University of Washington. I’ve known him for years as a guy who’d confidently explain to me why I was wrong about everything from physics to CS to politics … but then, for some reason, ask to meet with me…