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		mokus on June 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Factoring may be easier than we think (2016) Do we know that quantum effects will actually scale large enough to realize those speed ups for arbitrarily-large problems though?

Khoth on June 30, 2019 [–]

To paraphrase stuff from Scott Aaronson that I can't find right now: The currently known laws of physics say yes, and nobody's proposed any new laws of physics consistent with current observations which say no and don't allow even more computing power.

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