{"id":86792,"date":"2019-01-19T03:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scott-aaronson-the-winding-road-to-quantum-supremacy"},"modified":"2019-01-19T03:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T11:02:37","slug":"scott-aaronson-the-winding-road-to-quantum-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scott-aaronson-the-winding-road-to-quantum-supremacy","title":{"rendered":"Scott Aaronson \u2014 The Winding Road to Quantum Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BvVciA5iXH4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was the first part in an interview series with Scott Aaronson \u2014 this one is on quantum computing \u2014 other segments are on Existential Risk, consciousness (including Scott\u2019s thoughts on IIT) and thoughts on whether the universe is discrete or continuous.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>First part in an interview series with Scott Aaronson \u2014 this one is on quantum computing \u2014 future segments will be on Existential Risk, consciousness (including Scott\u2019s thoughts on IIT) and thoughts on whether the universe is discrete or continuous.<\/p>\n<p>See \u2018Complexity-Theoretic Foundations of Quantum Supremacy Experiments\u2019<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottaaronson.com%2Fpapers%2Fquantumsupre.pdf&redir_token=GggKL8TFHFdMu4oat5Z5Mbx7o1J8MTU0Nzk4MjEzMEAxNTQ3ODk1NzMw&v=BvVciA5iXH4&event=video_description\" class=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottaaronson.com%2Fpapers%2Fquantumsupre.pdf&redir_token=GggKL8TFHFdMu4oat5Z5Mbx7o1J8MTU0Nzk4MjEzMEAxNTQ3ODk1NzMw&v=BvVciA5iXH4&event=video_description\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDcQ6TgYACITCJSdsvnY-d8CFQfRxAodRNsCYSj4HUj-uInzgJHX-gY\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/papers\/quantumsupre.pdf\">https:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/papers\/quantumsupre.pdf<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bio : Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary areas of research are quantum computing and computational complexity theory.<\/p>\n<p>He blogs at Shtetl-Optimized: <a href=\"\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottaaronson.com%2Fblog%2F&redir_token=GggKL8TFHFdMu4oat5Z5Mbx7o1J8MTU0Nzk4MjEzMEAxNTQ3ODk1NzMw&v=BvVciA5iXH4&event=video_description\" class=\"\" data-url=\"\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottaaronson.com%2Fblog%2F&redir_token=GggKL8TFHFdMu4oat5Z5Mbx7o1J8MTU0Nzk4MjEzMEAxNTQ3ODk1NzMw&v=BvVciA5iXH4&event=video_description\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDcQ6TgYACITCJSdsvnY-d8CFQfRxAodRNsCYSj4HUj-uInzgJHX-gY\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/\">https:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scott-aaronson-the-winding-road-to-quantum-supremacy\">Continue reading \u201cScott Aaronson \u2014 The Winding Road to Quantum Supremacy\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the first part in an interview series with Scott Aaronson \u2014 this one is on quantum computing \u2014 other segments are on Existential Risk, consciousness (including Scott\u2019s thoughts on IIT) and thoughts on whether the universe is discrete or continuous. First part in an interview series with Scott Aaronson \u2014 this one is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,12,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-existential-risks","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}