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The Quantum Computing fiasco is fascinating and underline quite few human nature flaws. - We're collectively less smart/rational than we think - People with m
by stephc_int13 4y ago
The Quantum Computing fiasco is fascinating and underline quite few human nature flaws.
- We're collectively less smart/rational than we think
- People with money/power are not much better than average
- We tend to be very gullible when we don't understand the underlying principles
The same human flaws can be seen in UFO/Conspiracy theories and to some extent in the crypto/NFT scene.
A lot of this is amplified to several orders of magnitude by incompetent journalism.
- logifail 4y ago> - People with money/power are not much better than average I think it's way worse than that, the only things that people with money/power are better at ... is getting / hanging on to money and/or power. They're not better at anything apart from that, by any objective measure.
- stephc_int13 4y agoFrom my experience, people with higher social status (and thus money/power) tend on average to be somewhat smarter, but not by a large margin.
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoA lot of that is correlated with more recreational time, better family lives (probably no one in jail), and higher quality education. This is the same logic the French aristocrats used to justify the oppression of the peasants, reading novels made them "better"
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- seibelj 4y agoBitcoin is money the government doesn’t control. I like it but statists don’t.
- xaofnakj02 4y agoPlenty of anarchists (e.g. libertarian socialists) don't like bitcoin either.
- LarsDu88 4y agoMoney the government doesn't own, but can track with virtual perfect accuracy if you declare it on your taxes
- seydor 4y agoRather simply, unfortunate coincidences. The people with money to invest happend to be computing-related people. "Quantum Computation" contains the word computation, which they understand, and Quantum, which stands for "mysterious, cool, ingenious". So they invested in. Something like "developmental neuroscience" is nowhere nearly as cool-sounding.
- jl2718 4y agoThey're way better than average at understanding money and power. Obviously it is you that is confused into thinking this has something to do with scientific reality. Not saying I do either...