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Shtetl-Optimized Shtetl-Optimized The Blog of Scott Aaronson If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel. Also, please read Zvi Mowshowitz's masterpiece on how to fix K-12 education! --> NISQ and quantum supremacy did not fail July 18th, 2026 A week ago, a philosopher named Amit Hagar put out a preprint entitled The NISQ Trap: Eight Years of Demonstrations the Hardware was Built to Lose . Here’s the abstract: With a single clear exception, every NISQ-era flagship demonstration of ‘quantum ad

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