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O brave new quantum world!
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I’m surprised that you didn’t mention the talk beforehand. I would have probably dropped by to listen in if I had known.
But with regards to your abstract and ‘t Hooft’s comment on a slide of his saying that “quantum computers” will never exceed “scaled-up classical computers”. What do you think ‘t Hooft means by this? Is he saying that we only need to reconfigure our classical computers with the appropriate algorithm and this will make them equivalent to a “quantum computer” if the phenomena that quantum mechanics describes is really deterministic?
Hey Rafael, I always think about posting about my upcoming talks, but then I think you all hear enough about me already!
Well I have two takes on ‘t Hooft’s comment on this talk.
One is that if he seriously thinks he can build a classical computer which computes at 10^44 Hertz he hasn’t thought much about technology. This sort of limit is certainly silly for the foreseeable future.
Second he hasn’t thought very hard about scaling. Certainly having a faster classical computer would change where a quantum computer outperforms a classical computer, but remember that these things scale in the exponent, so his reasoning is a bit flemsy.