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gb22on I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA

Hi Scott

1. What do you think is the potential for emergence of a third computing model, apart from classical and quantum, which is sufficiently different in its fundamental computing paradigm from these? Do you believe biological substrates offer opportunity for computing which classical/QC cannot replicate?

2. If we achieve quantum supremacy, who do you think will be the biggest winners and losers, in terms of professional skill set and in terms of business models for private companies? Will physicists become much more influential if their ability to model and deliver new evidence (and thereby theory) and convert them into commercial products is advanced?

3. Would it be fair to say that d-wave machine is more an analog computer than a quantum computer; And do you think there is possibly a class of computing problems that might be better/more efficiently solved by analog computers than digital, and without requiring QC?

gb22on Facebook is censoring some posts on Indian Kashmir

For some color on the Burhan Wani case, the terrorists whose cause is being promoted by the banned groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farooq_Ahmed_Dar Read the last part.

gb22on Facebook is censoring some posts on Indian Kashmir

There are multiple legal reasons why plebiscite was never held. Primarily, it required the return of Pakistan occupied kashmir to india for a re-unification of the two kashmirs, as a precondition. Needless to say, Pakistan refused to comply. Additionally, the plebiscite was to be applied to whole of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir, which includes Aksai Chin territory that China occupied. Besides, Ladakh and Jammu regions would probably be butchered in Pakistan as they are Buddhist and Hindu majority respectively. So there is no question of 2 of the 3 regions accepting to even participate in any plebiscite. Within the muslim 'majority' valley, past surveys have pointed to both possible outcomes -- staying with india or joining pakistan. Too many kashmiri muslims have profited immensely from Indian rule, and fear a punjabi muslim takeover of kashmir were it to join pakistan. Punjabis and Kashmiris are very different people.