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Comment author: calef 03 September 2015 11:28:28PM *  1 point [-]

What precisely is Eliezer basically correct about on the physics?

It is true that non-unitary gates allow you to break physics in interesting ways. It is absolutely not true that violating conservation of energy will lead to a nonunitary gate. Eliezer even eventually admits (or at least admits that he 'may have misunderstood') an error in the physics here. (see this subthread).

This isn't really a minor physics mistake. Unitarity really has nothing at all to do with energy conservation.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 September 2015 12:54:14AM 0 points [-]

By that standard of admission, "Gauss the Sane" admitted that Eliezer was correct.

I was very vague because I was not interested in engaging with you.

Comment author: calef 04 September 2015 01:12:47AM 0 points [-]

If you aren't interested in engaging with me, then why did you respond to my thread? Especially when the content of your post seems to be "No you're wrong, and I don't want to explain why I think so."?

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 September 2015 01:37:30AM 0 points [-]

It is important to make disagreements common knowledge. That would justify a comment of the form you suggest. That is, however, not the comment I left.