Yeah, I got some pushback on Twitter on this point. I now agree that it’s not a great analogy. My thinking was that we technically know how to build a quantum computer, but not one that is economically viable (which requires technical problems to be solved and for the thing to be scalable/not too expensive). Feels like a not all squares are rectangles, but all rectangles are squares thing. Like quantum computing ISN’T economically viable but that’s not the main problem with it right now.
Yeah, I got some pushback on Twitter on this point. I now agree that it’s not a great analogy. My thinking was that we technically know how to build a quantum computer, but not one that is economically viable (which requires technical problems to be solved and for the thing to be scalable/not too expensive). Feels like a not all squares are rectangles, but all rectangles are squares thing. Like quantum computing ISN’T economically viable but that’s not the main problem with it right now.