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Comment by jassyr

3 days ago

Whenever I read about a scientific breakthrough I login to HN to see what the smart people think about it, and am disappointed if there isn't a post with hundreds of comments.

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miztrskinnr  3 days ago

This isn’t a forum of smart people. It’s a forum of asocial tech workers who write in authoritative prose but are just normal people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper

Quantum is just the next form of sampling the electromagnetic field. It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties but not rewrite human DNA or beam our consciousness to another galaxy; it’ll fill up RAM and disk really fast with impenetrable amount of data it will take decades to analyze and build real experiments across contexts to verify. Tomorrow will still come and be a lot like yesterday for us.

All in all it’s more of the same

Even if it we do beam our minds it’s just a copy. These meat suits still gonna stop experiencing someday. Life for us isn’t going anywhere.

  • dcist  3 days ago

    Now THIS is the sort of nihilistic outlook that keeps me coming back for a hit of HN.

    • miztrskinnr  3 days ago

      Not saying wild things aren’t possible; designer drug glands grafted on and such would be banger and would alter human lived experience.

      Another box measuring oscillations of fundamental forces will not.

      Religious fear of “corrupting human nature” keeps smart people scaffolding symbolic logic in machines versus experimenting with weird science. Live, eat, mate, help line go up relative to some musty people’s political ledger, and die is all we’re allowed!

      I want drug glands, regenerative tissue, and mini kaiju monstrosities grown in labs… as pets!

      What’s actually up in 2025?…

      “Behold! Nintendo Switch 2!”

  • oldgradstudent  3 days ago

    > It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties

    Maybe, one day, or never.

    In the mean time, it will generate a lot of hot and humid hype.

  • badlibrarian  3 days ago

    > people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper

    Nonsense. Many of us have installed that glitchy software that makes our screens orange sometimes.

  • drpossum  3 days ago

    You had me up to "normal people"

    > but not rewrite human DNA

    smugly but writing DNA is a quantum process