Comment on For FAI: Is "Molecular Nanotechnology" putting our best foot forward?

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:27:25 GMT

unless the FAI has very powerful quantum computers.

Why do you expect this to help? What nanotech computations would a "very powerful quantum computer" accomplish so much faster than a classical computer? Or do you mean something like an "analog" quantum computer, also known as a "quantum simulator", which solves the Schrodinger equation by simulating the Hamiltonian and its evolution, rather than the "ordinary" digital quantum computer, which speeds up numerical algorithms?

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