Post #909494

2026-04-03 04:46 UTC

@sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange A physicist I used to work for said quantum computing is very good right now for getting grant money to develop very nice ADC's and detector circuitry, which is useful for astronomy and particle physics. He admitted when I pressed him that he agrees that the actual computing part is complete bunk and going nowhere.

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@danmcd@hostux.social 2026-04-03 15:27

@poleguy @sophieschmieg I remember similar opinions in the 80s when people would bring up Reagan's "Star Wars"/SDI.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos 2026-04-03 15:37

@poleguy @sophieschmieg @cstross ding ding ding! 'Quantum computing' is full of the same kind of lunacy as LLMs; "it's inevitable, it's the future, ignore hitting obvious dead-ends." I would say that given the current landscape, effective communication by quantum teleportation over long distances is more likely to happen first despite the LLM-fanboy VCs shoveling money as fast as they possibly can.

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@TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange 2026-04-03 15:44

@poleguy @sophieschmieg I’m reminded of the thing that goes around occasionally about how Loch Ness is a great place to be a marine biologist because you can get money from people trying to find Nessie. And in the “search” you end up doing some really cool research most people can’t do because they don’t have that sort of funding.

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