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I’ve noticed that the MBA crowd (including some friends!) who jumped into the Bitcoing bandwagon at 10K are now hawking Quantum Computing.

barbecue_sauce 7y ago
How does one hawk Quantum Computing?
- deusofnull 7y ago
  I very much want to make a stephen hawkings pun but i guess technically he wasnt a quantum computing guy, but damn close
- LeftHandPath 7y ago
  People riding the bandwagon and generally talking about it like they're in on it when they don't know what a qubit or bell state is (or how to read braket notation). It's a similar line to AI - if the people talk about it like it has the potential to (and eventually will) destroy the world, they probably don't know much about it (in that case they're conflating sentience with intelligence, and ignoring the word "artificial). The people who are working on it right now will - like with AI - tell you that it's in its infancy, that its current applications are more limited than they are made to appear in pop-culture, and that (generally) things are harder and take longer than people pretend. Which is exactly what the author of the WSJ article is getting at (because he's not a hawker - he knows): > "There’s little doubt that, in the long run, computers that exploit quantum features of matter will dramatically enhance our ability to address useful problems. But we’re not there yet, nor is success guaranteed. For the foreseeable future we will have, at best, a “quantum advantage” in well-chosen applications, not “quantum supremacy” along a broad front."
  - perl4ever 7y ago
    "It's a similar line to AI - if the people talk about it like it has the potential to (and eventually will) destroy the world" Surely we can all agree that it doesn't take human or better intelligence to destroy the world. ...how about a nice game of chess?
- mathattack 7y ago
  Starting a consulting company to help companies “leverage this transformational game changing innovation opportunity.”
mraudiobook_com 7y ago
Did they jump off it? Because they were right to get on board with Bitcoin? Bitcoin is still the future if money and quantum processors the inevitable next generation.

barbecue_sauce 7y ago

How does one hawk Quantum Computing?

deusofnull 7y ago
I very much want to make a stephen hawkings pun but i guess technically he wasnt a quantum computing guy, but damn close
LeftHandPath 7y ago
People riding the bandwagon and generally talking about it like they're in on it when they don't know what a qubit or bell state is (or how to read braket notation). It's a similar line to AI - if the people talk about it like it has the potential to (and eventually will) destroy the world, they probably don't know much about it (in that case they're conflating sentience with intelligence, and ignoring the word "artificial). The people who are working on it right now will - like with AI - tell you that it's in its infancy, that its current applications are more limited than they are made to appear in pop-culture, and that (generally) things are harder and take longer than people pretend. Which is exactly what the author of the WSJ article is getting at (because he's not a hawker - he knows): > "There’s little doubt that, in the long run, computers that exploit quantum features of matter will dramatically enhance our ability to address useful problems. But we’re not there yet, nor is success guaranteed. For the foreseeable future we will have, at best, a “quantum advantage” in well-chosen applications, not “quantum supremacy” along a broad front."
- perl4ever 7y ago
  "It's a similar line to AI - if the people talk about it like it has the potential to (and eventually will) destroy the world" Surely we can all agree that it doesn't take human or better intelligence to destroy the world. ...how about a nice game of chess?
mathattack 7y ago
Starting a consulting company to help companies “leverage this transformational game changing innovation opportunity.”

mraudiobook_com 7y ago

Did they jump off it? Because they were right to get on board with Bitcoin? Bitcoin is still the future if money and quantum processors the inevitable next generation.