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Yes, that's certainly right, thanks. I was careless in assuming that people would just mentally convert everything to decision problems, like I do :-)
ETA: Vladimir, I couldn't find any proof that NP is strictly contained in PP; is it known? Our thread seems to depend on that question only. It should be true because PP is so freaky powerful, but nothing's turned up yet.
P⊆NP⊆PP⊆PSPACE, but we don't even have a proof of P≠PSPACE.
Unconditionally proven strict containments are pretty rare. You'll probably want to settle for some lesser evidence.
Hah. Thanks, that settles the issue for now: short of Scott Aaronson making an unexpected breakthrough, we have no proof that quantum suicide computing can solve any non-polynomial problems :-)