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As someone who works in the quantum info / computation / foundations field I prefer "advantage" to "supremacy" not just because of all the racists using the wor
by eigenket 6y ago
As someone who works in the quantum info / computation / foundations field I prefer "advantage" to "supremacy" not just because of all the racists using the word "supremacy" but also because advantage is more accurate. For me "supremacy" would indicate that quantum computers are convincingly beating classical ones for all or most problems at sufficiently large scale. I.e. if you're google or whatever you're buying quantum computers and using them for a big chunk of you computing needs.
This scenario is (in my opinion) overwhelmingly unlikely to occur during my lifetime (or ever). Classical computers aren't going anywhere. Quantum advantage conveys the reality that there are some problems that using quantum computers gives you advantages for, but others for which you should be using classical computation.