cousin_it comments on Quantum Russian Roulette - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 18 September 2009 11:01:39PM *  0 points [-]

The point is the relative cost difference between function evaluations and function minimization.

Well yeah, but the definitions of P and NP involve the size of the input. Your original claim was that we can solve "much harder than NP-complete" problems with quantum voodoo. I don't think you've proved it yet, but if you revise it to somehow talk about "relative cost differences", it does become somewhat more believable.