Comment on IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip
frezik@midwest.social 11 months agoYeah, 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.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
Focusing on what QC will do to encryption tends to mean you got most of your knowledge about them from pop sci articles. As you can see from this very thread, you’re hardly alone in this, but it remains a big red flag for people who don’t know what they’re talking about on this subject.