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ggmyesterday at 11:07 PM1 replyview on HN

This is the first well reasoned write up which makes me walk back from my "QC is irrelevant, and RSA is fine" position a bit. Well done! Thank you for putting this into terms a skeptic can relate to and understand. It helped me re-frame my thinking on risks here.


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tennysonttoday at 1:12 AM

A huge part of that, for me, was this from Scott Aaronson:

> Once you understand quantum fault-tolerance, asking “so when are you going to factor 35 with Shor’s algorithm?” becomes sort of like asking the Manhattan Project physicists in 1943, “so when are you going to produce at least a small nuclear explosion?”

That quote, alone, removed a lot of assumptions I had been carrying around.

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