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Still, it diminishes the effect.
Nnnoo it doesn't, IMO.
The effect of authoritative validation? The difference between professional physicist qua physicist, as opposed to quantum-computing-aware computer scientist, would not be small. Even if Scott Aaronson happens to know quantum mechanics as well as Feynman, it's difficult to validate that authority.