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<div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">On June 26, 2024, our group watched a series of videos by Sabine Hossenfelder in which she totally tore to pieces the outlandish claims made by people like those featured in this 60 Minutes segment. (Possibly some of the very same people, but certainly several of the same research groups.) (To review these videos, see the links on Steve Isenberg's wiki page for our group, under current and near-future meetings.) </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Quantum Computing is like Nuclear Fusion -- it's always "5 years away", and then another five years, and then another five years, and so on.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Like cryptocurrencies and LLMs ("AI"), you can buy into the hype and get fleeced, or you can wait and see what happens five years down the road. I guarantee, none of us in this group will live to see the day that these promised "breakthrough technologies" break through anything in our everyday lives. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br><div><div><br></div></div><div><div class="ydpcc15ddd2yt-content-metadata-view-model-wiz__metadata-row ydpcc15ddd2yt-content-metadata-view-model-wiz__metadata-row--metadata-row-inline" style="margin: 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background: transparent; vertical-align: middle;"></div></div></div>
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On Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 08:54:34 PM EDT, Stan Rose via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv1511781935"><div>CBS 60 Minutes did an interesting story Sunday night on Quantum Computers. It was a good explanation of how they work and what they look like. Here's a link to that story.<div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/UQOnnWJMlK24ZpBdM_DKWJFv_MNecSHD/">https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/UQOnnWJMlK24ZpBdM_DKWJFv_MNecSHD/</a><br></div></div>
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