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by andrewla 2461 days ago
From what I've parsed of the paper, this appears to fall firmly in the first category. This is a quantum computer simulating a quantum circuit; it's like saying that swirly water in a sink is achieving fluid dynamics supremacy, because we can't compute the results as fast as the water moves. Q12 touches on this.

I'd be really interested to hear what Gil Kalai has to say on this particular subject; he's generally pretty fair minded while being of a QC skeptic. He has a response up [1] but I haven't read through it yet.

[1] https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/quantum-computers-...