Scott Aaronson answers every ridiculously big question thrown at him
EECS alumnus Scott Aaronson (Computer Science Ph.D. ’04) “Answers Every Ridiculously Big Question (John Horgan) Throws at Him” in a Cross-Check interview for Scientific American. Aaronson, an Associate Professor at MIT (soon UT Austin) and an authority on quantum computation, riffs on simulated universes, the Singularity, unified theories, P/NP, the mind-body problem, free will, why there’s something rather than nothing, and more.