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Re:Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling by stonogo on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:21AM (#25299860)
A Chinese citizen, who happens to be the Vice Chair of a Chinese political party, working for the University of Science and Technology of China, using money entirely from the Chinese government, led a team consisting entirely of other Chinese citizens working for Chinese institutions, and you're wondering why we're claiming this was achieved by "China"?

Science might be a global cooperative effort, but this paper comes from China.

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Re:Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling by throwaway4good on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:17AM (#25300467)
One of the things that is interesting about the Chinese political system is the large number of engineers and scientists who also have high political positions.

Maybe it is a sign of a society still focused on building stuff rather than redistributing and administrating what is already there.

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Re:Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling by lucian1900 on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:22AM (#25300499)
There’s also a tendency for scientists to be Marxists, since dialectical materialism is the philosophy of all science in general.
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Re:Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling by xenihn on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:07AM (#25300429)
It feels like anyone who is getting heated over this link and the subsequent discussion didn't even read Scott's post to begin with.
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