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It doesn't matter if classical solutions are better at this point. We need to make progress and any baby step helps.

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• mirekrusin 7y ago
  According to some sceptics it does matter. Some are saying that error rate will grow the same way as “computational power” ie. you can’t physically get value out of quantum computing and it will never outperform classical computer. I’m not saying that is the case but the argument is sound and until proven otherwise we won’t know.
  • mtgx 7y ago
    Error rate remains more or less proportional with qubit growth as long as companies optimize for qubit growth alone. But once you have thousands of qubits you can use that to build something like a few dozen error-free logical qubits. Most companies don't believe it's worth attempting that yet and that it's better to optimize for qubit growth for now.
    • mirekrusin 7y ago
      I think that's what they are arguing with - if you increase number of entangled qubits - your error rate will explode the same way that your "computational potential". If that's the case then the whole quantum computing has a huge problem, you'd have to cool it down closer and closer to absolute zero. Having more machines that do poor calculation won't help here - you'll end up with a farm of expensive fridges. Just for the record - I want this to be false, quantum computing will hopefully work.