Are you talking about her video on trans athletes? I don’t remember it being transphobic.
Comment on IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 11 months agoI understand that you can’t just translate random algorithms to quantum computers and expect them to run better - but I did link an overview of 5 quantum algorithms that have real world uses, and Shor’s is only one of them.
I don’t consider Sabine Hossenfelder a person worth listening to. She frequently comments on topics she doesn’t know much about/has a very biased view of (e.g. her transphobic video).
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m talking about her video on transitions in general, not sure if you’re referring to that or something else. She misrepresented the state of research (implying there’s less research concluding transitions to be a good thing than there really is) and shared misinformation.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I don’t think I was talking about this, interesting. Because in the video I mentioned she was fine with trans athletes competing together with cis athletes, which seemed very progressive to me. But I’m happy to be proven wrong.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was talking about “Is being trans a social fad among teenagers?”.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
Yeah, Hossenfelder has had a bad habit of stepping outside of her lane, and from what I’ve heard from physicists, she’s questionable even inside her lane.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
She might have strong opinions on particle physics and I do take them with a grain of salt, but I don’t see objectively wrong things in there.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
Given that you thought that factoring primes was the only real world application of QC, I frankly don’t take your opinion here very seriously. Breaking encryption is one of the least interesting applications of QC. It’s just the one that gets all the headlines. Yes, even for “proper industrial use”.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Thanks for this productive discourse, not ad hominem at all. You’re welcome to criticize my views and I’m happy to learn. And I am doing my physics masters, so I’m definitely no idiot. But this is also not productive.