alt Hacker NewsThis isn’t a forum of smart people. It’s a forum of asocial tech workers who write in authoritative prose but are just normal people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper
Quantum is just the next form of sampling the electromagnetic field. It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties but not rewrite human DNA or beam our consciousness to another galaxy; it’ll fill up RAM and disk really fast with impenetrable amount of data it will take decades to analyze and build real experiments across contexts to verify. Tomorrow will still come and be a lot like yesterday for us.
All in all it’s more of the same
Even if it we do beam our minds it’s just a copy. These meat suits still gonna stop experiencing someday. Life for us isn’t going anywhere.
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> It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties
Maybe, one day, or never.
In the mean time, it will generate a lot of hot and humid hype.
> people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper
Nonsense. Many of us have installed that glitchy software that makes our screens orange sometimes.
You had me up to "normal people"
> but not rewrite human DNA
smugly but writing DNA is a quantum process
Now THIS is the sort of nihilistic outlook that keeps me coming back for a hit of HN.