Thursday, October 2, 2025

Quantum Computer Pessimism

Quantum computer researchers report progress all the time, but Craig Gidney reports:
In 2001, quantum computers factored the number 15. It’s now 2025, and quantum computers haven’t yet factored the number 21.
And Sabine Hossenfelder has gone negative on there ever being any applications.

Scott Aaronson attacks an HBSB-IBM announcement of quantum advantage.

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