Classic von Neumann: "You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that!"
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(Nitpicking alert) In this case, can't we precisely describe what a quantum computer does but not in "simple concrete terms" which are a function of natural language that is grounded in "non-spooky" observations? Aren't those two different things?
Of course - that's why the snippet above is careful to restrict itself to "simple concrete explanations".
