Wei_Dai comments on Quantum Russian Roulette - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Christian_Szegedy 18 September 2009 08:49AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 18 September 2009 11:45:52PM *  0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 19 September 2009 07:39:50AM 0 points [-]

On the computational power of PP and ⊕P says it gives strong evidence that PP is strictly harder than PH, which contains NP.