One of the most advanced technologies intersecting with U.S. national security today is quantum computing. Quantum has arrived in 2026, and how it ultimately gets implemented will impact America’s standing in great power geopolitical competition, especially with U.S. adversaries. National Security Editor Guy Taylor sits down with industry leaders at “Qubits26 Quantum Realized,” a conference hosted by D-Wave Quantum, for a wide-ranging discussion on what quantum computing is and how it stands to change the world.The rest of the article is paywalled, and I do not need to read it. It is all a scam. Quantum computers will not affect national security.
Friday, March 6, 2026
Quantum Computing and National Security
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"or a wide-ranging discussion on what quantum computing is".....in other words, move the goalposts from solving the hidden subgroup problem to.....well.....whatever's nebulous enough to seem to displace that without actually requiring any hard results. This type of behavior all began when that "quantum supremacy" term was coined, actually. "No we can't achieve what we set out to do (fast integer factorization), but we can do this contrived problem on a 'quantum computer' which is 'impossible' to calculate on a standard machine". Then embarrassingly, teams that are outside of their purview kept showing them up and writing new conventional algorithms which achieved the same results (usually teams from China). This went back and forth a few times. Now I guess they're at a "crossroads". You know what? I should make a startup. I could train an AI to continuously invent new convoluted "quantum" algorithms which, whether useful or not, run faster than any conventional version known. The Chinese teams wouldn't be able keep proving me wrong, because the AI would just spam new "quantum supreme" algos faster than they could bother to debunk each new one. I bet this is on the drawing board of these "quantum computing" groups.
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