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    3 days ago

    you people see that’s another buzzword? this is set up by a handful of credulous tech journalists to be a new bubble after ai bubble falters. exactly the same way when grifters jumped from crypto to ai (some with metaverse along the way)

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      I disagree. A viable quantum computer would be a gigantic technological breakthrough of a kind we haven’t seen in a long time.

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        It would. But right now there’s no guarantee it will ever work. This should be a topic for basic research not for venture capitalist fever dreams.

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          So we should just stop development on technology if it’s too hard? Maybe stop attempting nuclear fusion as well? That has also been going on for decades.

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            Yes. Put researchers on it and politicians should stop using those unsure technologies as strawman against current feasible green technologies and climate friendly endeavours.

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            No, fusion research is just paper thin disguise for thermonuclear weapons research, so this will get funding no matter what. I mean here especially things going on in places like Z-machine, Laser Megajoule, NIF and such but not only these

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      Some media outlets abuse things that are happening as an reason to push a shitload of content hoping to make money from ads. This adds to words becoming buzzwords, like crypto and AI. I don’t disagree that happens, but there is something real happening too. Whether you personally use and/or like crypto and ai does not change on this having major effects on certain industries. Same goes for a lot of other buzzwords, although the metaverse could well be an example of a buzzword without having anything real beneath it, so far at least. Some might end up not being a big thing (remember the hyperloop), some are world changing (there was a time smartphone was a buzzword).

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        hyperloop was a fever dream cooked specifically to kill californian high speed rail, so this one worked

        ah yes, major effects of crypto: it brought new innovative ways of money laundering, sanctions evasion and ransomware, and chatbots can give you psychosis and/or noninvasive lobotomy