Scott Aaronson Quotes
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If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.
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If you always win, then you're probably doing something wrong.
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Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash equilibrium.
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Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.
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If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.
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