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I don't know anything about this specific LLM thing but if it correctly uses the Nash bargaining optimiser then that won't happen. This thing you point out is exactly why Nash dema…

I would say almost exactly the opposite is happening. Academia generally publishes it's results relatively freely but academic AI research is largely being left in the dust by larg…

Yeah the whole entangled system is present and interacting with the "thermal ancilla" in their setup.

This graph [1] available on Wikipedia answers this question. The level of carbon 14 in the atmosphere (in the southern hemisphere) roughly doubled between 1955 and 1963 ish. This c…

There is not an "OS" or anything even remotely like it. For now these things behave more like physics experiments than computers. You can play around with "quantum programming" thr…

I'm not sure what that has to do with my previous comment but yeah, pushing the boundaries of science is kinda difficult and you can make mistakes. My understanding is that they pr…

The Majorana particles in Microsoft's set-up are "quasi-particles". They aren't really fundamental particles, but excitations in the system which behave (roughly, in some appropria…

The point is that Grothendieck, easily one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, who regularly proved deep and fundamental facts about prime numbers, cared so little about pa…

The formal class is called BQP, in analogy with the classical complexity clas BPP. BQP contains BPP but there is no proof that it is stictly bigger (such a proof would imply P != N…

The I can locally do stuff is completely understood theoretically/mathematically. I hand waved because this isn't a forum where those technicalities are particuarly relevant. Its b…

I don't think it's completely clear (to me) that quantum networking is an oxymoron. I would enthusiastically agree that its very complicated and the real world use cases are incred…

Neither of Gödel's two incompleteness theorems apply to quantum mechanics. The two theorems apply to logical systems which prove facts about the natural numbers. While this is an i…

Nuclear weapons (based on quantum mechanics and special relativity) were used less than 6 years after that quote.

Why doesn't this experimental result count as requiring explanation? We know (for example) silver atoms have mass, and that massive objects exert gravity (which we understand as wa…

I would say that's an overly simplistic view. The only way we ever obtain testable things is by working on things which are not currently testable.

von Neumann probably

I kinda doubt it. The kind of people who end up nominating people for Nobels or even making the decisions on these aren't really struggling for grant funding.

Computer science has the Turing award and mathematics the Fields medal. Neither is exactly equivalent to the Nobel but they're similar levels of prestige. The Nobel prize fields an…

"Vital" is completely subjective but I'd throw stuff around quantum information into the ring. Maybe you'd consider the loop-hole free Bell tests performed in 2015 and awarded the …

He unironically should

I think this is (very) inaccurate. It feels more like them trying to jump on a "hot topic" bandwagon (machine learning/AI hype is huge). Physics as a discipline hasn't really stall…

I don't think that's a super helpful description, because probably most people wouldn't call IO a datastructure.

There are many protocols for quantum key distribution/exchange so it's hard to answer fully without knowing which one you're talking about. That said their are protocols, like the …

Its probably mostly because you have an intuitive idea that there is some concept of "now" which is independent of the observer. In special relativity this global "now" isn't a thi…

The issue the person above is alluding to is known as the no communication theorem. It has a wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem But the upshot is ba…