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gjm comments on Quotes and Notes on Scott Aaronson’s "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 17 June 2013 02:04:38PM *  1 point [-]

Ooo, looks like LW's comment-parsing code just lets HTML through blindly or something. I wonder if I can fix the overhanging italics like this: </em> ? [EDIT: no, apparently not. So whatever did John do?]

Comment author: JohnSidles 17 June 2013 02:58:07PM *  0 points [-]

Gjm, after a round-of-suffering with the LaTeX equation editor, any-and-all markup glitches in the above comment now seem to be fixed (at least, the comment now parses OK on FireFox/OSX and Safari/OSX). Please let me know if you are encountering any remaining markup-relating problems, and if so, I will attempt to fix them.

Comment author: gjm 17 June 2013 04:02:01PM 1 point [-]

No, it's OK now. The funny thing is that the glitch doesn't seem to have been near any of your LaTeX bits.

I confess that I don't really see the connection between your comment and Scott's essay, beyond the fact that both have something to do with Scott's opinions on quantum mechanics.

Comment author: JohnSidles 17 June 2013 05:22:07PM 2 points [-]

Thank you gjm. To the best of my understanding, (1) all markup glitches are fixed; (2) all links are live; and (3) an added paragraph (fourth-from-last) now explicitly links dynamic-J methods to Scott's notion of "freebits".