Who is this guy and why should I care about reading such a huge article from him that appears to be presented as a fake interview, with himself?
Research Fellow at Y Combinator Research since 2017 (unclear if he's still there.) YC Research is now OpenResearch, chaired by Sam Altman
Currently Research Fellow at the Astera Institute. Astera was founded by Jed McCaleb. McCaleb is also known for creating the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange
In 2015 Nielsen published the online textbook Neural Networks and Deep Learning, and joined the Recurse Center as a Research Fellow
Author, with Andy Matuschak, of the online textbook Quantum Country https://quantum.country/ PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico
Richard C. Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, Fulbright Scholar
author: Nielsen, Michael A.; Chuang, Isaac L. (2000). Quantum Computation and Quantum Information.