> I know Hartmut Neven personally and professionally, and have for decades

I don't want to put you on the spot too much, but can you speak to why he included the part about many-worlds in this blog post?

I don't know enough about Google to say if maybe someone else less technical wrote that, or if he is being pressured to put sci-fi sounding terms in his posts, or if he believes Google's quantum computer is actually testing many-worlds, or some other reason I can't think of.