tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post8126850381668732537..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: The universe is not a quantum computerRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-44933873953018308342014-11-25T16:01:12.116-08:002014-11-25T16:01:12.116-08:00At least Aaronson admits that scalable QC has not ...At least Aaronson admits that scalable QC has not been achieved, and that puts him ahead of many others.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-69686966936249560372014-11-19T07:39:54.554-08:002014-11-19T07:39:54.554-08:00Remember your logical argument and follow it:
You ...Remember your logical argument and follow it:<br />You should tell Mr. Aaronson you don't need proof, he does.<br /><br />The burden of proof is not on the skeptic, it is on the claimant. When someone says "Prove it's not magic you denier!!", just say "Bah, prove that it is magic you Nimrod." It might also be a good time to mention to the claimant that second hand calculations can not be used as the cause of anything, they always are dependent upon other factors to even be calculated. A class average is a second hand calculation...and it tells you nothing whatsoever without knowledge of how many students were involved and what their individual grades were, and how the average compares against other averages of the same subject material in the same length of semester instruction. The context is what informs all calculation and gives a second hand calculation any meaning it can possibly have, not the other way around. Mr. Aaronson should know better.<br /><br /><br /> It should also be mentioned, nothing can 'simulate itself', because a thing already is itself. I can't simulate water with water, since it already is water. If I was going to claim it was a 'simulation', what pray tell was simulated? This is the same reason all time space 'simulations' using heavy objects and gridded rubber sheets are utterly ridiculous (aside from conflating two spatial dimensions with three spatial dimensions), of course their behavior resembles gravity, because you are observing gravitational effects, not a simulation of gravitational effects. A simulation employs a substitute of some other thing to model the subject, not the thing itself. <br /><br />CFTnoreply@blogger.com