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Subject: First-Ever Quantum Chess Tournament Won by Amazon Researcher
(Leah Crane)

ACM TechNews, 30 Dec 2020, via Leah Crane, *New Scientist*, 10 Dec 2020

Amazon researcher Aleksander Kubica won the world's first quantum chess tournament during the virtual Practical Quantum Computing (Q2B) conference. Quantum chess incorporates ideas from quantum mechanics, with pieces able to
be placed into a superposition of two locations, for instance, or entangled with one another. The winner must capture the opponent's king and make a
robust quantum measurement of its location. California Institute of Technology's Spiros Michalakis said, "It's like you're playing in a
multiverse but the different boards [in different universes] are connected
to each other." Cantwell noted the ultimate goal of quantum chess is to
provide a familiar mechanism for teaching the basics of quantum mechanics. https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-28b2cx2271bbx071822&

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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 10:51:48 +0100
From: Anthony Thorn <anthony.thorn@atss.ch>
Subject: Re: Loss of trust is a huge issue (Mills, RISKS-32.42)

Yes, it really is, and "loss of trust" in democratic institutions is a principal objective of state-hackers and other anti-democratic actors. If
not *the* principal objective; can democracy function without trust?

"The public is not being stupid when they decide what to believe based on political biases."

This misses the point that political actors are responsible for escalating
the loss of trust. So if not stupid then gullible.

Whom do you now trust? Surely not politicians?
(You never did in the past).

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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2020 11:11:11 -0800
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