Coming up on Nov 5

Sabine - this is a topic that I think is worth exploring in more detail. Especially the point about the type of algorithms and mathematical problems that really lend themselves to Quantum computing methods. There is a lot of other content and perspectives on the likelihood of technical success in building a quantum computer, and enough investment flowing into this area that the efforts to make a practical machine are not going to stop anytime soon … but the real “aha” moment for me was the discussion around the limitations of what you can actually DO with a quantum computer even if you had one.

Wasn't that bought out by Kepler's Ellipticals?

Greggery Peccary

Kepler Planetary Epicycles, Inc.

A 'classical' investment bubble ... in Newtonian Mechanics, Ltd or the Ptolemaic Cosmology Corp?

Greggery Peccary

I suspect it won’t surprise you to hear this, but it’s already in the price https://www.google.com/search?q=qbts+stock&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari. Still, make sure to stock up on the popcorn. There’s plenty of pain to come and one thing is for sure, popcorn ain’t gonna be cheaper.

Rad Antonov

There's that German chick who wants money to make videos online like the other kids are these days, she could talk to her friends, and sell the toaster for a profit! They're into sciencey-sounding quantum stuff, I think.

If you can get two other friends to invest, you also get a free toaster.

But yeah, not going to be sorry to watch the Quantum Bubble burst.

I feel like I've lived through and observed half-a-dozen at least bubbles, busts, recessions and various sorts of cluster-fuckery in my short-ish 42 years, starting with the Recession that happened when I was eight or so years old. I'm sort-of rolling my eyes at the current inflation crisis, but truly I'm fortunate to not be affected so far by world events in that regard. I don't think humanity will cut it out this decade. 😕

This is just wicked. Congrats.

Armando Mistral

Oi, my nerves. I was young and energetic in Silicon Valley during the Dot-Com bubble. It was ugly. And stupid. And predictable in hindsight. I anticipate a masterful takedown by Sabine of this impending insanity. The Quantum Bubble is gonna be a cluster f*** inside a dumpster fire, and will trigger extinction-level shortages of popcorn as we watch in glee.

Armando Mistral

I'm thinking, some Dutch tulips in the gardens of Elon Musk's Martian settlements would be just the thing!

Throw in Bernie Madoff and some Calabi-Yau circuitry diagrams and I'm in!

As a hopeful and greedy mass myself, I am searching for investors for my new string computers. They are still in development, but string computers are more compact than quantum computers and early tests show that they are 10 times faster than quantum computers because they run their computations in parallel across all 10 curled up dimensions. I was fortunate to snag Elizabeth Holmes for the board of directors. For a mere $10 million, you too can sit on the board and help guide the development of the next generation of computing.

So how do we get this wasteful speculation to *stop*? Anyone who can figure that one out (if that hasn't happened already) and how to get us to *not invest in stuff that is not sensible* should get all the prizes, except that won't actually happen because how would the wealthy and dishonest siphon money off from the hopeful and greedy masses then. 🫤