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ghurtado
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Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantu...
There's also the fact that the road to useful is littered with useless, because how else would you make progress?
oh_my_goodness
6 months ago
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You could do what evolution does, and require that every version be useful. But evolution seems to require an awful lot of trial and error.
dboreham
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Evolution requiring that every version is useful seems a (significant) oversimplification.
oh_my_goodness
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If some version is not reasonably useful, it doesn't have kids.
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