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Comment by didgeoridoo

5 months ago

Isn’t that kind of like saying “complex numbers are a nice formalism, but only the reals actually exist”?

What does “reality” mean, in this context?

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AlexCoventry  5 months ago

"Reality" in this case would be a cryptographically relevant Quantum Computer, as predicted by current Quantum Mechanical calculations which use these 2^n-dimensional Hilbert Spaces he mentions.

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