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Update (Dec. 9):<\/mark><\/strong> For those who still<\/em> haven’t gotten enough, check out a 1-hour Zoom panel discussion about quantum algorithms<\/a>, featuring yours truly along with my distinguished colleagues Eddie Farhi, Aram Harrow, and Andrew Childs, moderated by Barry Sanders, as part of the QTML’2024<\/a> conference held in Melbourne (although, it being Thanksgiving week, none of the four panelists were actually there in person). Part of the panel devolves into a long debate between me and Eddie about how interesting quantum algorithms are if they don’t achieve speedups over classical algorithms, and whether some quantum algorithms papers mislead people by not clearly addressing the speedup question (you get one guess as to which side I took). I resolved going in to keep my comments as civil and polite as possible—you can judge for yourself how well I succeeded! Thanks very much to Barry and the other QTML organizers for making this happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you like watching me spout about AI alignment, watermarking, my time at OpenAI, the P versus NP problem, quantum computing, consciousness, Penrose’s views on physics and uncomputability, university culture, wokeness, free speech, my academic trajectory, and much more, despite my slightly spastic demeanor and my many verbal infelicities? Then holy crap are you in luck today! Here’s 2.5 hours of me talking to former professional poker players (and now wonderful Austin-based friends) Liv Boeree and her husband Igor Kurganov about all of those topics. (Or 1.25 hours if you watch at 2x speed, as I strongly recommend.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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