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nitro said:
A quantum computer is a computer that uses the properties of "individual" fundamental particles and the physics that govern them, known as quantum mechanics, to form a qubit as its basic computing unit. This is in contrast to classical von-Neuman computers that use a "large" number of electrons to build logic circuits. Classical computers are also governed by the physics of quantum mechanics, but classical computers, as far as we know, can not exhibit superposition, which is at the heart of quantum computers. We use the properties of ensemble of electrons to build gates that are then assembled into classical computers. The standard classical digital computers uses the bit.

The idea behind a quantum computer is somewhat complicated, but essentially it uses the weirdness of superposition of quantum particles to explore solutions in a massively parallel way. Classical computers are essentially finding solutions serially. Here is a reasonable explanation:

http://www.dwavesys.com/quantum-computing

and

https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/quantum-computing-101

It is important to understand that a computing unit can be built from just about anything. The reason we use electronic digital computers is that they are fast, and quantum computers are much much faster for a certain class of important problems.

Quantum Cryptography also have another perhaps even more important application, guaranteed secure communications. You can send a message, and know whether it is being tapped in between. Here is a readable article on quantum computers and quantum cryptography one after the other in a concise way:

https://blog.kaspersky.com/quantum-computers-and-the-end-of-security/
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That sounds like a great idea except for the fact that every single computer is already a quantum computer and was built from the theory of quantum mechanics.

Now quantum cryptography is a whole another topic of discussion. Of course I don't know you would want to try to achieve this, since it has already been done.

You know, everybody always talks about Einstein and how great the theory of relativity is, but the truly great scientific breakthrough of the 20th century was the theory of quantum mechanics. The real technological break throughs were the result of quantum mechanics, and not so much Einstein.
 
wildchild said:
That sounds like a great idea except for the fact that every single computer is already a quantum computer and was built from the theory of quantum mechanics.
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You have not understood.

Now quantum cryptography is a whole another topic of discussion. Of course I don't know you would want to try to achieve this, since it has already been done.
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You don't understand

You know, everybody always talks about Einstein and how great the theory of relativity is, but the truly great scientific breakthrough of the 20th century was the theory of quantum mechanics. The real technological break throughs were the result of quantum mechanics, and not so much Einstein.
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QMs is a tremendous achivement. GR is a tremendous achievement. Both have had incalculable repercussions to society. QMs has had a more direct impact on the lives of our current societies. I believe that we are at a new inflection point where the tension between the two pillars of physics will take us philosophical heights of understanding the universe(s), if not to new technological heights.
 
and then when we get bored watching robots play baseball, the head robot comes up with a revolutionary idea, "What if we tried to teach humans to play baseball? Yes, they would be slow and inefficient, but at least people would start betting again on an uncertain outcome, and that would create more jobs for the algorithms."
 
loyek590 said:
and then when we get bored watching robots play baseball, the head robot comes up with a revolutionary idea, "What if we tried to teach humans to play baseball? Yes, they would be slow and inefficient, but at least people would start betting again on an uncertain outcome, and that would create more jobs for the algorithms."
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People will compete with people. It makes no difference that there are cybernetic devices out there that would pulverize us at the same sport or any endeavor for that matter.

Chess is there now. Your cellphone with a free open-source program would torch any chess player alive or dead. There are computer tournaments where they play against each other. They are interesting, but chess has never been more popular among human being than ever before! When people invented the bulldozer, did we stop arm-wrestling?

Human beings are arrogant. We think that we are the center of the universe. Each new technological advance makes us more and more insignificant. A bunch of hairless apes on a unique planet near an average star in an average galaxy. That doesn't mean we can't have fun competing against each other!
 
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nitro said:
Yes, this is nothing new. But back in his day it was scy-fy. Now the singularity is around the corner.
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and the funny thing, raising the min wage could encourage the new cap ex spending we all have been dreaming of, to replace the new higher wage employees, on robots who show up every day. (Not to mention a little more spending money to increase demand in the soon to be laid off wage earners pocket.)
 
for those of you playing along at home, that means, we just keep raising the minimum wage until workers are so expensive that corporations are forced to invest in robots to meet the new demand of minimum wage workers with disposable income, thereby kicking off the "robot" bubble of 2020.
 
I haven't thought the whole thing through, but we need to raise the minimum wage now, gradually but consistently. After that, I'll try to come up with a fix for the unintended consequences.
 
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