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"my life hasn't been wasted and my career hasn't been ruined" Talk to me in 10 years when you're not bringing me a steak for a living. FWIIW I went to a Gord
by scottlocklin 8y ago
"my life hasn't been wasted and my career hasn't been ruined"
Talk to me in 10 years when you're not bringing me a steak for a living.
FWIIW I went to a Gordon conference on this in the 90s, and literally, the capabilities of quantum computers have not changed since then. Zero. None. There has been no "Moore's law like progress." There hasn't been any! That's the point! There's been more progress in interstellar space flight than quantum computing (I dunno, White-Juday is at least a good try), but at least warp drive creators aren't trying to convince people like you to ruin your lives.
- happytoexplain 8y ago>Talk to me in 10 years when you're not bringing me a steak for a living. This comes off as an incredibly hostile sentence, though I suspect you may have not meant it as just an attack.
- scottlocklin 8y agoDude, some guy with a Ph.D. in quantum computing from MIT brought me a steak for a $10 tip; does that not concern you?
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoDude, some guy with a Ph.D. in quantum computing from MIT brought me a steak for a $10 tip; does that not concern you? Dude, your n=1 anecdote isn’t as amusing or compelling as you seem to think. Your entire argument seems more like a thinly veiled excuse to rant than it resembles an intellectual exercise. That’s hardly an inspiring argument from a self-styled empiricist. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18961731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18961731
- scottlocklin 8y agoI thought it was hilarious, personally, as we were discussing at the dinner table why quantum computing is probably nonsense. My interlocutor (who was more or less going along with the conventional opinion that QC is about to "change everything") thought I bribed the waiter to say this.
- z3t4 8y agoIf you only sleep 4 hours you can have two jobs and still work on quantum computing. Then when you make a break-though someone steals your idea. Science is only for the privileged.
- gaze 8y agohttps://imgur.com/a/HCJ7hLq https://imgur.com/a/HCJ7hLq Again, exponential progress in coherence time.
- scottlocklin 8y agoWell, for one thing, consultants who can see through baloney like that are extremely valuable to people in business. You ever look at Haroche's 1996 argument against QC? You should go have a look.
- gaze 8y agoRead it. Pretty stale take, which it would be for being 23 years old.
- scottlocklin 8y agoHave any of his concerns been addressed? Do you, for example, have a pithy rejoinder to the idea that manipulating an exponential number of states to any degree of precision is kind of impossible?