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I'm watching the entire thing -- Elon is clearly a pretty damaged soul and I thought Sorkin did a great job trying to point out to Elon that because he's great at physics (cars, satellites, rockets) he has this incredible leverage in other non physics related issues (speech, geo politics) while Elon wasn't capable or willing to answer that in the moment, I think it will continue to be asked
 
I’ve taken a lot of things, and ketamine was by far the most bonkers high. I was already on mdma when I took it, but it made me hallucinate the most realistic out of body experience. Like I was watching a drone shot of myself from above, while moving through the crowd…

I know it’s been quite successfully used in low doses therapeutically & in conjunction with therapy sessions…..but I’m sure Elon is abusing it, in which case I could absolutely see it frying his brain.
 
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Probably super yuge.

and also another example of how American/Western countries are still the ones building the future while China is busy struggling to get the most out of 7nm silicon.
 
zeke said:
what are quantum computers capable of at the moment?
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Google has had a functioning 53 qubit system in their lab since early 2022, and announced a 70 qubit system a few months ago. 70 qubits basically makes advanced cryptography obsolete and can run large number models/calculations that would take super computer banks decades, in a couple of minutes.

Medical research, astrophysics, climate research, material sciences....basically any hard science that needs to run large math models would be changed more or less overnight with just the currently available computing power. Probably the single biggest bottleneck in those fields is the time it takes to test the big ass math models they use for testing ideas.

There's a bunch of major challenges to system stability though, that's probably the most exciting bit of IBM's release tbh is improvement to error correction code. Quantum computers are much more prone to errors in their calculation due to the weirdo nature of the physics they're relying on as the bedrock of the tech. Any functioning quantum system has to be able to auto recognize errors in it's calculation and self correct.

So basically, if they nail this tech, hard sciences will go from idea to testing model to usable data at a ridiculous speed. Climate models take months of super computer time to compute, for example. It would take as long as google search takes with working quantum computing.
 
zeke said:
so as of now they can't really do anything? at least not dependably?
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Well, if IBM is saying what I think they're saying, they've fixed the error correcting issue with code.

There's other hardware and stupid physics issues with them that affect up time/reliability. But if error correcting is fixed....well, fucking yuge.
 
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