jbay comments on Quantum Explanations - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 April 2008 08:15AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 April 2013 01:59:44AM 0 points [-]

Wow! Is the rest of the book that good? I've read some of Aaronson's lecture notes and blog (and largely approve of his interpretation of QM as probability with a 2-norm), but I didn't know he could write like this.

Comment author: jbay 08 April 2013 02:07:20AM 1 point [-]

I think it's been up for a long time on his website as a lecture series. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/

I think he might be simplifying it a little bit. As I understand QM, it's more like probability with complex numbers, rather than with negative numbers.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 April 2013 02:11:34AM *  0 points [-]

I think he might be simplifying it a little bit. As I understand QM, it's more like probability with complex numbers, rather than with negative numbers.

Yes, he is. Must be for rhetorical purposes, because elsewhere he says exactly that.

Comment author: jbay 08 April 2013 02:56:11AM 0 points [-]

Ah, okay. It's been a while since I read it. I remember it being excellent though.

Comment author: lukeprog 08 April 2013 02:40:15AM 1 point [-]

The book is cleaned up and updated. There's a section at the beginning explaining all the new results that have come out since 2006, requiring updates to the lecture notes when he was turning them into a book.