What Michael Nielsen thinks about simplicity

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Physicist, writer and researcher, co-author of the standard textbook on quantum computation and quantum information.

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1. 7 Apr 2026

   Our readingWhat made the new astronomy compelling was neither accuracy nor simplicity but that one set of ideas explained three disconnected phenomena at once.

   Their wordsAnd so, you have what seem like three very different disconnected phenomena all being explained by this one set of ideas.

   ↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 2nd of 26 in this recording