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Re:Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommend... by jackpirate on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:18PM (#17655036)
Keep in mind that Scott Aaronson is about as famous as CS professors come. He no longer can get anymore famous by doing great work himself. Instead, he gets more famous by having his students do great work and having them become famous as well. A more junior researcher (or a researcher outside the theory community), on the other hand, would have more incentive to claim research as their own to become more famous themselves.

That's not to diminish Aaronson's generosity here, just to put it in the context of his actual career motivations.

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Re:Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommend... by jlg23 on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:47PM (#17655295)
> just to put it in the context of his actual career motivations.

Unless you have some deeper insights into his psychology, your guess is as good as mine: "Scott Aaronson is simply a decent human being."

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Re:Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommend... by kohanz on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:58PM (#17655422)
I had no idea who Scott Aaronson is, so the context was useful to me.
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Re:Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommend... by shaklee3 on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:37PM (#17655797)
He runs this blog:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

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Re:Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommend... by denzil_correa on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:50PM (#17655325)
The preprint has no mention of Scott Aaronson as an author though.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04271

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Re:Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommend... by jessriedel on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:04PM (#17655481)
Scott is famous enough that people reading this article are more likely to remember the author as "Scott's student" than the author's name. Additionally, having famous and successful students has great career benefits when they champion your ideas (even when uncited).
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