> you denigrated my work in a public forum without apprising me
I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was under any obligation to apprise you. You certainly never asked me to, and if there's some kind of universal social obligation that applies here that's news to me. (BTW, did it even occur to you that the reason I did this is not because I'm a coward or a drunkard, but simply because I might be clueless?)
> the harm you inflicted would have been done
What harm could I possibly inflict? I have no influence in the quantum computing community. I've never published anything in that field, and I've been retired from research in general for nearly 20 years. No one who matters has any reason to pay attention to what I say. The only way my critique could possibly harm you is if it has merit. (Does it?)
> What if I went around in public forums and said, "Hey there's this crackpot out there, Ron Garret, check him out on your bogometer"?
You mean like when Lubos Motl called me a "category 5 loon"?
https://motls.blogspot.com/2012/10/evading-quantum-mechanics...
I was actually flattered that someone of Lubos's stature would take notice of my work and put forth the effort to criticize it. I think it said more about Lubos than it did about me that he chose to lob an ad-hominem at me, but whatever, it's a win-win for me: either Lubos is right, and I learn something, or he's wrong, and I get to be smug about having taught him something. :-) It's certainly not worth getting upset over.
> You introduced the term "quantum supremacy" to our discussion.
That's true, but I introduced it in the context of a question: are you claiming that you have achieved quantum supremacy in a classical computer? To which you answered yes.
> I don't usually think in such hype-y / marketing terminology,
Quantum supremacy is not "hype-y / marketing terminology", it's a technical term, whose definition is common knowledge in the quantum computing community:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy
I assumed you knew that, but apparently I was wrong. (In retrospect, I guess the fact that you had to look Shor's algorithm up on Wikipedia should have been a clue.)
So... now that you do know it, I am going to ask you again: are you claiming to have achieved quantum supremacy on a classical computer?