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It won't work. It's just another tech scam that will fail, but at least we got great research out of it.

• reikonomusha 3y ago
  If you mean quantum computers can't fundamentally work: you can publish a peer-reviewed paper about why it wouldn't work and the field would be immensely interested.
  • pclmulqdq 3y ago
    Generally, fields of academic study are not interested in accepting publications on why their field is unnecessary, even when you come at them with evidence.
    • l33tman 3y ago
      What the OP suggested was that "it is a scam". It clearly isn't, there is nothing in QC that isn't traditional QM which is a 100 year old incredibly well-tested theory. As far as we currently know, it's an engineering problem, not a question of "will it work". If there is evidence to the contrary, I'm sure any journal would be happy to publish it (that would make it to Science or Nature, not a quantum-computing specific journal).
  • klyrs 3y ago
    Gil Kalai has some well-researched opinions along these lines, and he seems to have a mutually respectful relationship with Aaronson.
  • resource0x 3y ago
    There are plenty of articles explaining why quantum computers won't scale. https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-case-against-quantum-computing https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-case-against-quantum-computing https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-argument-against-quantum-computers-20180207/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-argument-against-quantum-... (You can find more by googling)
    • reikonomusha 3y ago
      Kalai and Dyakonov are popular in sharing their opinions and speculations on this matter, but they haven't managed to make a convincing scientific argument that controlling a large scale quantum system is intractable or infeasible. That doesn't mean they're wrong, but that they too would need to engage in quantum computing as researchers doing science to be convincing.