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Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by pbw on Saturday April 23, 2016 @11:17AM (#11555878)
Wow he seems very smart but not very succinct.
Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by johngossman on Saturday April 23, 2016 @12:07PM (#11556102)
It is an incredibly long interview, but I assume it was e-mail. And full of short gems like:

"QM isn’t even “physics” in the usual sense: it’s more like an operating system that the rest of physics runs on as application software"

Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by johngossman on Saturday April 23, 2016 @01:25PM (#11556441)
"Speaking of which, when I look at the thrilling advances being achieved today in AI, I see all sorts of ethical issues that will need to be dealt with soon—like, how can a deep neural network justify to you why it turned down your loan application? Should self-driving cars handle crashes using utilitarian or deontological ethics?"
Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by disconcision on Saturday April 23, 2016 @01:14PM (#11556393)
that's a line straight out of his book 'quantum computing since Democritus'. highly recommended if you want to get a bird's eye view of the foundation of quantum logic without all that pesky physics (and physical history) getting in the way.
Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by johngossman on Saturday April 23, 2016 @01:21PM (#11556431)
I've actually read it, I just didn't remember this line. Thanks. And I agree, great read.
Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by lucb1e on Saturday April 23, 2016 @12:26PM (#11556179)
I'm fairly certain that was not one of the defined goals.