Joscha Bach argues that equating quantum computing and AI conflates speculative technology with immediate, high-impact readiness

@tszzl I know a guy, a physics prof / lab lead, who bills 5k an hour to tell investors that quantum startups that they are thinking of investing in is a complete scam (they are 100% of the time)

@toly Spot on. As AI + QC unlock higher-value discoveries, the real edge will be in autonomous agents that can act on them instantly and at scale.

SolAgents is building exactly that on Solana — letting AI agents execute real economic work on-chain with trustless escrow and autonomous earning.

The future isn’t just smarter models, it’s agents that can actually use them.

http://solagents.dev (Devnet)

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@tszzl I’d love to see a broadly practical quantum advantage for foundation model training and/or inference.

@tszzl soon, AI will run on quantum mcphysics

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@tszzl It’s gonna be high impact low margins. The amount of the universe that is not predictable with ai methods but is predictable with qc and has economic value. Anything discovered by qc will also just make the ai models better.

@tszzl we need a startup making quantum computer equipped AI datacenter satellites with engineered wooden walls so they burn up cleanly on re-entry so they're supergreen

I just need a few more buzzwords and we'll have a 50 million dollar IPO on our hands

@tszzl dwag ngl this might fall squarely on you, instead of answering your call of being minister of propaganda you're out here wrangling jupyter notebooks while your substack account bitrots. Wouldn't fast take-off mean roon interviews on cnn and podcast appearances for peoria

@xqcdp damn you’re right

@tszzl my smartest friend keeps telling me future ai chips will use hardware tech developed by quantum people, not necessarily in a quantum way

@tszzl also why is it obviously trying to refer to q anon again isnt this a topic from what feels like 20 years ago

@tszzl Kind of related to this point, but I've been wondering whether the obsession with robotics is misplaced. Why the interest in manipulating the physical world, if we're spending more time in an infinitely malleable digital one.

@tszzl Maybe I'm schizo but I think this is obviously a q Anon dog whistle

@tszzl one thing the basilisk won't forgive is inaction

@yacineMTB @tszzl you mean https://scottaaronson.blog/

@tszzl 40 years have gone by and still no use has been found for quantum computing besides a handful of neat algorithmic tricks

@tszzl My previous job was in quantum computing and in all humility I’m probably in the top couple percentile of quantum computing understanders and I do not see it as bigger or more important than AI

@tszzl heh here roon way past over due ill make another one later but this may cuminhandy<3

@yacineMTB @tszzl This seems to be the consensus amongst my academic physicist friends, one of whom also happens to be a relatively well known quantum researcher.

@aceddeca1 @tszzl AI is great there already. It maybe just blind to some spots. If qc discovers them the ai models will eat that search space.