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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Of course. Not a single quantum computer has done anything but test programs and quantum-specific benchmarks. Until a quantum computer finally does something a normal computer regularly does, but faster, we should simply ignore this area.

EDIT: could the downvoters state a single occasion where a quantum computer outmatched a normal computer on a real problem. And with that I mean something more elaborate than winning naughts and crosses, or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

until it's better we should simply ignore this

That seems like a strange comment to make. How will it get better if we don't spend the time and effort to make it better?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Many people in lemmy is highly primitivist and tech conservatives. Meaning that they don't actually want any technological progress.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With quantum computing if you ignore it you are simultaneously not ignoring it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think so, but yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The idea is not to have three worthless announcements per week. They can get better all they want, and come back once they have tangible results.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a different kind of quantum computer though (which i call the "real" kind). But that needs a while, especially with current risk-avoiding behavior of big corp. We are not even optical yet, not to talk about multitalents like graphene/silicene.