{"id":351,"date":"2008-08-21T12:06:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T16:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2008-08-21T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T16:06:47","slug":"quantum-computing-since-democritus-lecture-20-cosmology-and-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 20: Cosmology and Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec20.html\">Come watch me<\/a> attempt to explain the implications of a positive cosmological constant for computational complexity theory.\u00a0 If this blog is about anything, it&#8217;s about me talking about subjects I don&#8217;t understand sufficiently well and thereby making a fool of myself.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s also about experts taking the time to correct me.\u00a0 The latter is the primary saving grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come watch me attempt to explain the implications of a positive cosmological constant for computational complexity theory.\u00a0 If this blog is about anything, it&#8217;s about me talking about subjects I don&#8217;t understand sufficiently well and thereby making a fool of myself.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s also about experts taking the time to correct me.\u00a0 The latter is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[5,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-democritus","category-physics-for-doofuses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}