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BusyBeaver(6) is really quite large
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BusyBeaver(6) is really quite large

For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on research, or even popular science writing. Every so often, though, something breaks through that wakes my inner child, reminds me of why I fell in love with research thirty years ago, and helps me forget about the triumphantly strutting factions working to destroy everything I value. Back in 202…Read Article
Trump and Iran, by popular request
Donald Trump · Tehran

Trump and Iran, by popular request

I posted this on my Facebook, but several friends asked me to share more widely, so here goes: I voted against Trump three times, and donated thousands to his opponents. I’d still vote against him today, seeing him as a once-in-a-lifetime threat to American democracy and even to the Enlightenment itself. But last night I was also grateful to him for overruling the isolationists and even open antisemites in his orbit, striking a blow against the …Read Article

Cracking the Top Fifty!

I’ve now been blogging for nearly twenty years—through five presidential administrations, my own moves from Waterloo to MIT to UT Austin, my work on algebrization and BosonSampling and BQP vs. PH and quantum money and shadow tomography, the publication of Quantum Computing Since Democritus, my courtship and marriage and the birth of my two kids, a global pandemic, the rise of super-powerful AI and the terrifying downfall of the liberal world ord…Austin, Texas · AustinRead Article

Grant Sanderson: But what is quantum computing? - 3 Quarks Daily

Grant Sanderson, of 3blue1brown, has put up a phenomenal YouTube video explaining Grover’s algorithm, and dispelling the fundamental misconception about quantum computing, that QC works simply by “trying all the possibilities in parallel.” Let me not futz around: this video explains, in 36 minutes, what I’ve tried to explain over and over on this blog for 20 years … and it does it better. It’s a masterpiece. Yes, I consulted with Grant for this …YouTube · United StatesSee the Story

Theoretical Computer Science for AI Alignment … and More

In this terrifying time for the world, I’m delighted to announce a little glimmer of good news. I’m receiving a large grant from the wonderful Open Philanthropy, to build up a group of students and postdocs over the next few years, here at UT Austin, to do research in theoretical computer science that’s motivated by AI alignment. We’ll think about some of the same topics I thought about in my time at OpenAI—interpretability of neural nets, crypt…Austin, Texas · AustinRead Article

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