Ask HN: Does anyone believe Quantum Computing will scale?
I’m inspired by Scott Aaronson saying about the invisible electric fence for P!=NP. In all sorts of different ways, something stops hard problems from having efficient solutions.
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1720
I know someone who used to work on QC and they said offhand “Maybe building a large quantum computer will be just as hard as solving hard computational problems.” Aka, maybe the invisible fence is there for QC too.
I also know that due to the way QC affects cryptography, it gets a lot of funding from governments. It’s an arms race. This could produce a lot of business, without actual results.
So I want to hear from a quantum computing researcher. Do any of you seriously believe in quantum supremacy?