On Sunday, July 23, 2023, at 12:33 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
> Right now we have we have working 10 qubit quantum computers that can factor 
> 48 bit numbers using a different algorithm called QAOA, a huge leap over 
> Shor's algorithm. They estimate RSA-2048 can be broken with 372 qubits and a 
> few thousand gate operations.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12372
> 
> But before proposing quantum computing as a solution to AGI, understand how 
> they work and what they can do.

Algorand and other cryptos claim quantum security, bitcoin is a dinosaur but 
the biggest and baddest 😊 But yes point taken on studying Shor's and Grover's 
algorithms... and... QAOA.

It’s hard to believe that we can’t factor larger numbers efficiently though… 
something is very wrong there. I wasn’t proposing quantum computing per se as a 
solution to AGI… just researching short algorithmic path finding for hybrid 
classical/quantum optimization. Yes, there is the overlap of compression and 
intelligence. Does General Compression fully equal General Intelligence?

Quantum computing though is a subset of quantum technology and discoveries are 
pouring in fast and furious. Look at the recent developments in high fidelity 
qubits and the Chiral-Bose liquid state. But if true plants and bacteria were 
using quantum optimizations long before humans existed so studying natural 
phenomena may lead to insight. And we are still bacteriological units.

I’m not convinced though the brain isn’t performing quantum computation… we 
don’t know enough to say that do we? And I’m not in the camp that says one 
human brain is a general intelligence. The graph of human brains is IMO.
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