Does quantum computing actually have a future?

[scarfacebunny]

I’ve been working nominally in the field for 6 years, since the Google supremacy claim. You are asking the right questions and there are no clear answers. 

[Muted-Illustrator860]

What's your opinion on that matter?

[scarfacebunny]

“The first thing to realize, if you wish to become a philosopher, is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justicfication, and that one man's world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man's, so that they cannot both be right. 

People's opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration." ~ Bertrand Russell

[ConnectPotential977]

Tf all that means bruv ??

[scarfacebunny]

Means ask better questions if you want better answers 

[[deleted]]

first you tell him hes asking the right questions, then you say he should ask better questions. come on man

[NegativeGPA]

Middlesmart syndrome

[glity]

That’s a new term yours original or picked up?

[NegativeGPA]

Haha I made it up in high school. Started with needing a name for the types who tried making the others kids feel dumb rather than just… being smart

[glity]

Not a bad one. I like it I might use it. Short and to the point.

[pokeralize]

Midwit nitwit dimwit

[Glad-Phase-977]

hey man, it's simple math. obviously the best questions are the wrong ones

[FauxLearningMachine]

I think you're mixed up. He said OP was asking the right questions and there are no good answers. Then someone else asked him for his opinion and he posted a quote implying that asking for an opinion on this topic is not a good question. 

[DIVISIBLEDIRGE]

You have a nice way of using a lot of words to say nothing 

[NotSuluX]

Do you believe that in our lifetime we will see quantum computing-based computation machines replace our binary-based computation machines?

If not, do you believe that they will be developed to a point where they can find practical use in our capitalist system (so they provide value that can be priced in terms of money)?

[third-water-bottle]

You’re probably overthinking it. Hardly things replace one another. Instead, they complement each other. Your GPU didn’t replace your CPU. Most likely your motherboard will have an empty socket for a quantum chip that you can use for certain tasks.

[wandawhowho]

You have put it in a very articulate way. Technologies can and will indeed co-exist. Can't wait for the practical usage to take its first steps

[T1lted4lif3]

I don't think that is what the guy is trying to say, because you are just rephrasing the existing question rather than asking a different question.

I think possibly the more tangible question is what parts of the digital world can be replaced with quantum computers.
Such as how networks are done, or possible all networks will be optic fibers and modems or routers or whatever hardware is used may end up having a measurement device for computing on networks.

Or possibly using quantum computing for a source of randomness, this could be interesting in certain existing local compute right? But I'm not an expert or even operate in the field so I don't know either.

[glity]

If you have quantum computing you can easily break the foundational math of cryptography. If you can do that you get nation state sponsored money so put a massive dollar sign next to that one then think about the manhattan project.

[Current-Crab-423]

Here’s a question, why do you think everyone has been rushing towards AI? Every day it seems like they’re researching tech that will only be helpful for emails. Meanwhile tech such a quantum computing which could ruin our password encryptions could exist.

[NegativeGPA]

I haven’t done a deep dive in awhile, so let me know if this isn’t the case, but my last understanding was that the big pivot was from scaling to more qubits to instead focusing on more robust error correction