From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 1997 - 13:56:51 MST
And another quick note: Eugene Leitl (?, going on someone else's
attribution) seems to think that Einstein-Bose condensate in ubiquitous
everyday gadgetry is unlikely. But please note: We don't need QCPCs.
We need *one* QC Cray to calculate protein foldings or evolutionary
computation, and then we're home free. Ubiquitous QC seems unlikely,
not on grounds of expense, but on the grounds that a single KQb
(kiloqubit) will probably be enough to revolutionize the world beyond
where "ubiquitous" has any meaning.
"And the Lord said to Peter Shor: I COMMAND YOU TO BUILD A COMPUTER.
The height shall be three hundred qubits..."
-- Genesis, Act VI, Scene XIII.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
everything I think I know.
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