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2025-03-09 02:38:09
"what quantum computers can [theoretically] do"
I'm 99.9% convinced that QC will never surpass conventional computing as the physical challenges are insurmountable. It's nothing more than theoretical vaporware and a welfare program for PhDs. I suspect that's why they make the installations so aesthetically impressive, because, under the hood, nothing impressive is happening.
I just finished reading Microsoft's PR. Note the careful use of language: "That it expects to", "a path to", etc etc. The careful use of language betrays the true, current utility of QC, which is nonexistent. Factoring the number 15, by cheating, does not count as utility.
If you want straight-talk on QC, talk to an ex-researcher. Current researchers are financially-dependent on keeping the hope alive. I'm sure they believe in the potential, like many others before them, who did until they didn't, and then moved on, into a more promising field of research, or an even more ludicrous technology, like "thermodynamic computing."
I don't like being critical, but technical charlatanry is one of my pet peeves as it wastes our most valuable resource - bright minds. Bright minds that would otherwise be working on more promising technologies. Also, wealthy people are being conned into burning VC cash in QC and thermodynamic startups founded by silver-tounged charlatans.