Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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    23 hours ago

    Until quantum comes around for everybody because then it can be zero or one at the same time. And you don’t know until you observe it.

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      22 hours ago

      Quantum computing will never come around for everyone. It’s entirely different technology, and what we have works quite well for what we need. A good analogy from this Cleo Abrams video is it would be like saying we no longer need cars because we invented boats

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      23 hours ago

      Not really.

      Quantum computing is about literally solving it exponentially faster.

      Think of it like brute forcing a password.

      Binary it can change one character and it has to go thru all of them.

      Actual quantum computing goes down multiple paths at once, so the bigger the password the more gain there is from quantum. It doesn’t have to actually try every single possible combination.

      It’s not just going from 2 to 3 states, because that third state is quantum superposition and by no means just a 50% increase. That superposition is how it goes down multiple “paths” at once.

      But the observer effect isn’t coming into play.