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Quantum computing for the determined (Link)
nikAleksandr11y00

This is excellent. Thank you for beginning with the basics.

One confusion. I'm only three videos in and you have suggested the mediums that could carry quantum information, but not how that information is produced in those mediums, read from those mediums, or stored.

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Probability is in the Mind
nikAleksandr11y20

This was a very difficult concept for me, Eliezer. Not because I disagree with the Bayesian principle that uncertainty is in the mind, but because I lacked the inferential step to jump from that to why there were different probabilities depending on the question you asked.

Might a better (or additional) way to explain this be to point out an analogy to the differing probabilities of truth you might assign to confirmed experimental hypothesis that were either originally vague, and therefore have less weight when adjusting the overall probability of truth vs. specific, and therefore shift the probability of truth further.

Hopefully I'm actually understanding this correctly at all.

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