{"id":6016,"date":"2012-01-30T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2012-01-30T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:59:43","slug":"debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/01\/30\/debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I did math, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debateteamdocumentary.com\/resources.html\">debate<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd now I&#8217;ve found a way to reconcile the two!  <a href=\"https:\/\/gilkalai.wordpress.com\/\">Gil Kalai<\/a> is a great researcher in theoretical computer science who has written several articles that are skeptical of the possibility of quantum computers ever being built.  I think his ideas are interesting, but wrong.<br \/>\nSo we&#8217;ve agreed to debate on the neutral territory of Dick Lipton and Ken Regan&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/\">Godel&#8217;s Lost Letter<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe debate begins with <a href=\"https:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/30\/perpetual-motion-of-the-21st-century\/\">Gil laying out his case for skepticism of quantum computing<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn a few days, I&#8217;ll post my reply there.  Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I did math, I did debate. And now I&#8217;ve found a way to reconcile the two! Gil Kalai is a great researcher in theoretical computer science who has written several articles that are skeptical of the possibility of quantum computers ever being built. I think his ideas are interesting, but wrong. So we&#8217;ve agreed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/01\/30\/debate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Debate!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}