Monthly Archives: December 2019

Quantum supremacy won me a bet

About three years ago, on 21.03.2016, I made a bet with Miguel Navascués. At the time superconducting qubits were in their infancy: devices based on them had very few qubits, and quite shitty ones at that. Nevertheless, I was sure … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorised | 2 Comments

Superdeterminism is unscientific

Yesterday I saw with disappointment a new paper on the arXiv by Hossenfelder and Palmer, Rethinking Superdeterminism. There they argue that physics took a wrong turn when we immediately dismissed superdeterminism; instead it is a solution to the conundrum of … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorised | 63 Comments