When can I buy this for 20 dollars?

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...

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

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

I’ll DM my bank details now.

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.

Won't the lightspeed limit how much data you can feed in and out of such a processor