<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">The Google paper that was briefly posted said that they proved "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Quantum speedup is achievable in a real-world system and is not precluded by any hidden physical laws"</i>, and they predict " </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i>quantum computing power will grow at a double exponential rate</i>".</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Double exponential rate? That's starting to sound a bit like a singularity. <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://fortune.com/2019/09/20/google-claims-quantum-supremacy/">A Major Milestone in Computing</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div>