Quantum Information Supremacy

Scott Aaronson is a Computer Science professor at the University of Texas at Austin. See his Wikipedia entry, which says he’s the founding director of UT Austin's new Quantum Information Center. Aaronson is into quantum computing in a big way, and is a famous blogger on the subject. His blog is called Shtetl-Optimized, and one of his recent posts was called Quantum Information Supremacy. I take an interest in this sort of thing because I have a Computer Science degree, and I know a thing or…