Re: Quantum computing

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Sep 14 1998 - 13:31:39 MDT


Hal Finney wrote:
>
> This sounds correct as far as it goes, but it neglects one crucial aspect
> of quantum computing: getting an answer out of the machine with a large
> probability (or in a large fraction of universes, in the many-worlds
> interpretation).

Got it. No further questions.

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