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In my opinion the "shut up and calculate" view is the most common among actual quantum computing researchers.

Unsure about those working on quantum foundations, but I think the absence of consensus is enough to claim any view as absolutely not the view.



i don’t really view “shut up and calculate” or very restrained copenhagenism as a real view at all.

i think if you were to ask people to make a real metaphysical speculation, majority might be partial to everett - especially if they felt confident the results were anonymous


I agree, but that kind of goes to my point:

I believe the vast majority of researchers in quantum computing* spend almost no time on metaphysical speculation,

*Well, those on the "practical side" that thinks about algorithms and engineering quantum systems like the Google Quantum AI team and others. Not the computer science theorists knee-deep in quantum computational complexity proofs nor physics theorists working on foundations of quantum mechanics. But these last two categories are outnumbered by the "practical" side.


Seeing to believe is indeed a view, as they would have to view it in order to believe!




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