quantum computing
5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 10, 2025 by Mikey Shulman · across every show →
Everything said about quantum computing, oldest first
Jan 10, 2025 bearish
Shulman: Quantum computing startups face fundamental physics challenges, not engineering ones
“The challenges are not they're still physics challenges. They're still like basic research challenges that have to happen here, and so it's not something where you can kind of just turn the crank and make companies out of it, and to my knowledge, all of the co…”
Jan 10, 2025 bearish
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Sep 5, 2025 positive
Sep 5, 2025 negative
Alex Schultz: Malign AI superintelligence is scarier than quantum computing
“There are ways for us to handle encryption being broken, not least quantum encryption. And so it's a much more solvable problem. Whereas If a malign AI superintelligence actually existed, that would be less solvable. So of the two, I'm more scared of AI.”