Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity

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  you know, it might take, you know, years or decades to become,

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  you know, an expert like in a whole field, you know,

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  and you might be very far from that,

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  but it really doesn't take that long to become the world expert on one particular tiny little problem,

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  right?

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  And, you know, so try to, you know, become the world expert on something,

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  you know, you know, even something very, very narrow.

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  So Professor Aronson, can you tell us a bit about your early journey?

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  You were a young prodigy, you graduated high school at the age of 15, got your PhD at 22.

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  Can you tell us about that?

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  Yeah, I didn't really graduate high school when I was 15.

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  I got a GED from New York State.

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  I was not happy in high school for several reasons.

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  I mean, just socially, academically, and I wanted to get out.

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  And I mean, I was in a weird situation because I went to...

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  public school in the U.S.

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  for junior high and then in Pennsylvania actually, then my parents moved to Hong Kong.

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  I lived in Hong Kong for one year because my dad was working there and because of the miss,

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  I went to an American international school there,

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  but because of a mismatch between the way They did things in the U.S.

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