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What Michael Nielsen Thinks About Basically Everything

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How Long Do You Keep Pushing on an Idea?

In 1998, I saw Kiphelan give a talk about LIGO, the gravitational wave detector. And in the abstract, they report a strain sensitivity of one part in 10 to the 22. Like, this is just, I mean, his mind boggling that they were able to do it. So incredibly seriously, my judgment would certainly have been, this is a bad idea. But obviously I was completely and utterly wrong.

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