{"id":4400,"date":"2019-10-30T06:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:29:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:29:13","slug":"my-new-york-times-op-ed-on-quantum-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4400","title":{"rendered":"My New York Times op-ed on quantum supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/30\/opinion\/google-quantum-computer-sycamore.html\">Here it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d like to offer special thanks to the editor in charge, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eleanorbarkhorn?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Eleanor Barkhorn<\/a>, who commissioned this piece and then went way, <strong>way<\/strong> beyond the call of duty to get it right&#8212;including relaxing the usual length limit to let me squeeze in amplitudes and interference, and working late into the night to fix last-minute problems.  Obviously I take sole responsibility for whatever errors remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course a lot of material still ended up on the cutting room floor, including a little riff about Andrew Yang\u2019s tweet that because of quantum supremacy, now \u201cno code is uncrackable,\u201d as well as Ivanka Trump\u2019s tweet giving credit for Google\u2019s experiment (one that Google was working toward since 2015) partly to her father\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I&#8217;m posting: those of a more technical bent might want to check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1910.12085\">new short preprint<\/a> with UT undergraduate Sam Gunn, where we directly study the complexity-theoretic hardness of spoofing Google&#8217;s linear cross-entropy benchmark using a classical computer.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is. I&#8217;d like to offer special thanks to the editor in charge, Eleanor Barkhorn, who commissioned this piece and then went way, way beyond the call of duty to get it right&#8212;including relaxing the usual length limit to let me squeeze in amplitudes and interference, and working late into the night to fix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,33,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-bells-theorem-but-a-flesh-wound","category-complexity","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}