This gets into philosophy about reference machines in general. You don’t want to make a relativist argument that is too general, because then you could say “my niche physics theory is very simple relative to a reference machine for it, it just looks complicated to you because you are using a different reference machine”. With priors I’m looking for a thing that could be figured out without looking at the empirical world. Humans figured out lots of math, including classical computation, before figuring out the math of quantum computation. This is despite living in a quantum world. Quantum mechanics has a reputation for being unintuitive, even though we live in a quantum universe it is descriptively true that human natural prior-like complexity measures encoded in the brain don’t find quantum mechanics or quantum computation simple.
This kind of checks out to me. At least, I agree that it’s evidence against treating quantum computers as primitive that humans, despite living in a quantum world, find classical computers more natural.
I guess I feel more like I’m in a position of ignorance, though, and wouldn’t be shocked to find some argument that quantum has in some other a priori sense a deep naturalness which other niche physics theories lack.
This gets into philosophy about reference machines in general. You don’t want to make a relativist argument that is too general, because then you could say “my niche physics theory is very simple relative to a reference machine for it, it just looks complicated to you because you are using a different reference machine”. With priors I’m looking for a thing that could be figured out without looking at the empirical world. Humans figured out lots of math, including classical computation, before figuring out the math of quantum computation. This is despite living in a quantum world. Quantum mechanics has a reputation for being unintuitive, even though we live in a quantum universe it is descriptively true that human natural prior-like complexity measures encoded in the brain don’t find quantum mechanics or quantum computation simple.
This kind of checks out to me. At least, I agree that it’s evidence against treating quantum computers as primitive that humans, despite living in a quantum world, find classical computers more natural.
I guess I feel more like I’m in a position of ignorance, though, and wouldn’t be shocked to find some argument that quantum has in some other a priori sense a deep naturalness which other niche physics theories lack.