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2022

On Bryan Caplan and his new bookoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2022
Explanation-Gödel and Plausibility-Gödeloriginal ↗
12 Oct 2022
Postdocs, matrix multiplication, and WSJ: yet more shortiesoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2022
Two more shortiesoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2022
Shorties!original ↗
30 Sept 2022
I had a dreamoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2022
What I’ve learned from having COVIDoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2022
Win a $250,000 Scott Aaronson Grant for Advanced Precollege STEM Education!original ↗
2 Sept 2022
My Quantum Information Science II Lecture Notes: The wait is over!original ↗
31 Aug 2022
Busy Beaver Updates: Now Even Busieroriginal ↗
30 Aug 2022
That Financial Times QC skepticism pieceoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2022
Summer 2022 Quantum Supremacy Updatesoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2022
Updatezoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2022
Juris Hartmanis (1928-2022): Guest post by Ryan Williamsoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2022
On black holes, holography, the Quantum Extended Church-Turing Thesis, fully homomorphic encryption, and brain uploadingoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2022
More AI debate between me and Steven Pinker!original ↗
22 Jul 2022
A low-tech solutionoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2022
Choosing a new comment policyoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2022
Linkz!original ↗
9 Jul 2022
Einstein-Bohr debate settled once and for alloriginal ↗
8 Jul 2022
We Are the God of the Gaps (a little poem)original ↗
5 Jul 2022
Steven Pinker and I debate AI scaling!original ↗
28 Jun 2022
Because I couldn’t not postoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2022
OpenAI!original ↗
17 Jun 2022
Alright, so here are my comments…original ↗
12 Jun 2022
Computer scientists crash the Solvay Conferenceoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2022
An understandable failing?original ↗
29 May 2022
Donate to protect women’s rights: a call to my fellow creepy, gross, misogynist nerdbrosoriginal ↗
4 May 2022
My first-ever attempt to create a meme!original ↗
27 Apr 2022
An update on the campaign to defend serious math education in Californiaoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2022
On form versus meaningoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2022
Backoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2022
Nothing non-obvious to say…original ↗
25 Feb 2022
Happy 70th birthday Dad!original ↗
12 Feb 2022
AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre Englishoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2022
Scott Aaronson Speculation Grant WINNERS!original ↗
4 Feb 2022
Why Quantum Mechanics?original ↗
25 Jan 2022
Win a Scott Aaronson Speculation Grant!original ↗
20 Jan 2022
On tardigrades, superdeterminism, and the struggle for sanityoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2022
The demise of Scientific American: Guest post by Ashutosh Jogalekaroriginal ↗
3 Jan 2022
Book Review: “Viral” by Alina Chan and Matt Ridleyoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2022

2021

My values, howled into the windoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2021
An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letteroriginal ↗
3 Dec 2021
Two new talks and an intervieworiginal ↗
2 Dec 2021
The Acrobatics of BQPoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2021
Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said…original ↗
16 Nov 2021
Q2B 2021original ↗
1 Nov 2021
An Orthodox rabbi and Steven Weinberg walk into an email exchange…original ↗
22 Oct 2021
Welcome to scottaaronson.blog !original ↗
21 Oct 2021
Gaussian BosonSampling, higher-order correlations, and spoofing: An updateoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2021
The Physics Nobel, Gaussian BosonSampling, and Dorian Abbotoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2021
“Is China Ahead in the Quantum Computing Race?”original ↗
26 Sept 2021
Was Scientific American Sokal’d?original ↗
24 Sept 2021
My ACM TechTalk on quantum supremadvantageoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2021
Open Problems Related to Quantum Query Complexityoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2021
Exciting opportunities at Kabul University!original ↗
5 Sept 2021
“The Chair”: A Straussian interpretationoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2021
Please cheer me uporiginal ↗
27 Aug 2021
Stephen Wiesner (1942-2021)original ↗
13 Aug 2021
Yet more mistakes in papersoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2021
On blankfacesoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2021
Striking new Beeping Busy Beaver championoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2021
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021): a personal vieworiginal ↗
25 Jul 2021
Slowly emerging from blog-hibervacationoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2021
Open thread on new quantum supremacy claimsoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2021
STOC’2021 and BosonSamplingoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2021
On Guiltoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2021
More quantum computing popularization!original ↗
8 Jun 2021
Three updatesoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2021
In which I answer more quantum computing questionsoriginal ↗
24 May 2021
On turning 40 todayoriginal ↗
21 May 2021
What I told my kidsoriginal ↗
16 May 2021
Three updatesoriginal ↗
10 May 2021
The easiest exercise in the moral philosophy bookoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2021
Doubts about teapot supremacy: my reply to Richard Borcherdsoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2021
The ACM Prize thingoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2021
Just some prizesoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2021
The Computational Expressiveness of a Model Train Set: A Paperletoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2021
QC ethics and hype: the call is coming from inside the houseoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2021
Abel to winoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2021
Long-delayed UT Austin Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase!original ↗
11 Mar 2021
Sayonara Majorana?original ↗
10 Mar 2021
Another axe swung at the Sycamoreoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2021
The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanicsoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2021
Stop emailing my utexas addressoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2021
Brief thoughts on the Texas catastropheoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2021
On standing up sans backboneoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2021
A grand anticlimax: the New York Times on Scott Alexanderoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2021
Once we can see them, it’s too lateoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2021
Research (by others) proceeds apaceoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2021
Sufficiently amusing that I had no choiceoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2021
A day to celebrateoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2021
To all Trumpists who comment on this blogoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2021
Distribute the vaccines NOW!original ↗
2 Jan 2021

2020

My vaccine crackpottery: a confessionoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2020
The case for moving to a red stateoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2020
Chinese BosonSampling experiment: the gloves are offoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2020
Beth Harmon and the Inner World of Squaresoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2020
Happy Chanukah / Vaccine Approval Day!original ↗
11 Dec 2020
Shor’s algorithm in higher dimensions: Guest post by Greg Kuperbergoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2020
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