Comments on: A Desktop Quantum Computer for Just $5,000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/01/a-desktop-quantum-computer-for-just-5000 Safeguarding Humanity Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:54:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: @Skipthehype https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/01/a-desktop-quantum-computer-for-just-5000#comment-425238 Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:54:54 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/01/a-desktop-quantum-computer-for-just-5000#comment-425238 With all his prima facie impressive levels of knowledge and intelligence, does it occur to Mr. Peter Jackson that even an extremely modest increase in number of words might make otherwise clear-as-mud portions of his post potentially comprehensibly to a far larger number of readers? A control-f search for “Randi” gives zero matches in the Discover magazine link; the “paper just provisionally accepted” is one which PJ can’t be bothered to so much as name; which “predicates”; which assumptions are dangerous; what is dangerous about them; and countless other items left out.

Were we to try to be as deliberately obscurantist, we might say that “it is a highly non-injective many-to-one function that maps a Domain containing both the brilliant and the ill informed Flat Earth type crank(FETC), into a Range containing such Comments as the above by PJ” or in plain English, with the (hard to imagine, not deliberately) very long list of items left unclear, undefined, unspecified, etc, in that comment, it’s impossible to distinguish between the brilliant/potentially very helpful and a useless comment by a FETC.

Corollary: “The comment even if by the former, does the World little or no more benefit than had it been a comment by the latter”

(Please resist, PJ, the equally common response of a bazillion paragraph long, irritated ‘I’m just a genius fools like you can’t understand’ 63-part rant reply) Thanks and have a great day.

P.S.: See also — Theory of Mind; Know your Audience; How to Win Friends and Influence People; Clear Exposition is a Necessary Condition; Correct Theory/Theorem isn’t a Sufficient Condition; “It’s not enough to be right, it’s needed that others see that you’re right” and oh, yes, “eschew obscurantist obfuscation” — and finally: “you need a hug!”

]]> By: Peter Jackson https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/01/a-desktop-quantum-computer-for-just-5000#comment-424270 Sun, 31 Jan 2021 13:27:34 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/01/a-desktop-quantum-computer-for-just-5000#comment-424270 I note these didn’t appear, and suggest they won’t, Despite all the hype claims, they can’t, due to false predicates. On that topic; your ‘quantum randi challenge’ also uses flawed predicates. John Bell knew, and proved “the founding fathers were wrong” in their assumptions, (i.e. p.171) which you also use. A paper just provisionally accepted by a Nature title identifies where. Your assumptions are dangerous as they prevent advancement of understanding!

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