TechTakes

I, for one, am excited, because this could be the ultimate bubble. Like think about it, crypto was shit, but at least it was vaguely a thing, like you could buy Bitcoin and order drugs through SilkRoad and you'd have drugs, that's a material use case. LLMs suck ass but ChatGPT exists, you can go to that website and type shit and it will respond, it's garbage but it's garbage you can touch and smell.

Quantum has none of this. It's ultimate vaporware, a technology that literally does not exist, you can't have a PoC, you can't have an early version that you'll lie about being a "big step towards General Quantum Computing" or whatever. This is SV's wet dream, can we make money from basically nothing at all?

Is this real? Or an artificially engineered bubble like LLMs and the "AI" spawned by them?

Does this mean LLM bubble might burst? This is VCs hedging their bets?

This is a shot in the dark on my part, but I get the suspicion the quantum hype is gonna face direct resistance, in a similar manner to LLMs/AI.

Quantum's supposed encryption-breaking abilities are currently a hypothetical, but hype about such abilities could prompt fears that governments/corporations would abuse quantum to supercharge currently existing mass surveillance, enabling governments to invade people's privacy without needing a backdoor or corporate cooperation.

High energy consumption will likely prompt resistance as well - the current crop of quantum computers consume a lot of power to keep their chips within spitting distance of absolute zero, and after seeing AI corps do everything in their power to consume as much energy as possible, I can see the public expecting similar behaviour in the upcoming quantum bubble, and reacting accordingly.

https://archive.is/PDgTJ this one seems to work. "The world should prepare for the looming quantum era: New breakthroughs underscore the technology’s potential and perils"

The headline jumps into the critihype already. (which might be justified by the article, im just judging the book by the cover)

So what you're telling me is that the economy will collapse without the hype bubble?

And no one do any uncertainty principle dirty on me.