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Netcob t1_is4ohpo wrote

It's general-purpose computing, so it will be used for surveillance and porn, as always.

But yeah, it does sound like singularity level stuff...

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eve_of_distraction t1_is4s9i3 wrote

I love the almost paradoxical combination of optimism and cynicism in this sub.

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Netcob t1_is4vul8 wrote

There's probably too few people in it to enforce groupthink... personally I just flipped eventually.

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TheNotSoEvilEngineer t1_is5d8oh wrote

If you look into the players in quantum computing all of the big spending is coming from intelligence spending (They funnel it through universities as grants). End of the day the stake holder the grant holders report to is someone in a government intelligence agency. Right now our 3 letter agencies are storing all encrypted files they can get their hands on now to one day use quantum computers to crack the encryption.

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