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| | These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn't imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is imminent. Why have you reversed yourself? I appreciated the friend of mine who paraphrased this as follows: "A decade ago you said you were...
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| | So, Part II of my two-part series for American Scientist magazine about how to recognize random numbers is now out. This part---whose original title was the one above, but was changed to "Quantum Randomness" to fit the allotted space---is all about quantum mechanics and the Bell inequality, and their use in generating "Einstein-certified random numbers."
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| | Over the years I have been mulling a problem in metaphysics: the ontological mysteries of Quantum Mechanics. I have been developing a theory...
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| When will AGI systems want to solve the alignment problem? At some point, I expect AGI systems to want/need to solve the alignment problem in order...