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29 May 2024 Conversations with Tyler Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility

“The problem is, of course, it’s very helpful for motivational reasons to have answers to that, but your answers never turn out to be what the correct answer was.”

— Michael Nielsen

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Michael Nielsen
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29 May 2024
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Conversations with Tyler

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…But you face the year coming up now, right? There’s a step before you. Yes. The problem is, of course, it’s very helpful for motivational reasons to have answers to that, but your answers never turn out to be what the correct answer was. Probably my ability to write. Your Twitter biography says, “Searching for the numinous.” What does that mean with respect to you?…

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