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#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

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Is BQP Slash QPolly the Most Beautiful Class?

Zu: The most beautiful class is just, yeah, I use as my email address, BQPQPolly at gmail.com. Yes, because BQP slash QPolly. This is a class that I was involved in sort of defining proving the first theorems about in 2003 or so. But this is like, if we extended BQP, which is the class of everything we can do efficiently with a quantum computer, to allow quantum advice,. Imagine that you had some special initial state that could somehow help you do computation and maybe such a state would be exponentially hard to prepare. Zu: So what out of that whole complexity, Zu,

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