I commented on this issue a couple of days ago here and linked a study arguing that the current methods of “factoring” via QC are not scalable

https://lemmy.world/comment/23267756

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11687-7

The issue at hand is that there’s a fundamental limit of what we can effectively do at the moment, and a lot of the hype is being driven by “factorization methods” that ultimately only twiddle a few LSBs in the number to cheat to solve it using something that’s not even remotely close to a real world example.

To use the Manhattan project analogy, this would be like saying “theoretically, if you smash enough radioactive stuff together into a critical mass it will fission, so we’re going to compress these bananas until we hit that point”.

I think they’re hoping that reaches more of a steady state

With how quickly tech advances and hardware degrades under heavy use, they’re going to be pushing that rock up a hill for a good while lol

Sure, papers about an abacus and a dog are funny and can make you look smart and contrarian on forums. But that’s not the job, and those arguments betray a lack of expertise. As Scott Aaronson said:

Once you understand quantum fault-tolerance, asking “so when are you going to factor 35 with Shor’s algorithm?” becomes sort of like asking the Manhattan Project physicists in 1943, “so when are you going to produce at least a small nuclear explosion?”

L. O. L.

I love that this dude just casually dismissed that QC hasn’t been able to factor anything larger that 21 in the last 14 years without cheating and using primes that are nothing close to real world grade primes used in crypto.

Relevant paragraph:

PQC readiness “is mostly actuarial/risk management—even if the chance of building a CRQC by, say, 2030 is very low (say 5 percent), the downside risk is huge,” he explained. “Combine that with very long transition engineering times, and you should have started already.”

Also, relevant paragraph from the wiki page for integer factorization records:

The largest number reliably factored by Shor’s algorithm, rather than some other quantum method, is 21 which was factored in 2012.[26][27] The number 15 had previously been factored by several labs and subsequent attempts to factorise 35 failed.[27

And a relevant excerpt from this study looking at “factored” primes above 21

Large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of implementing Shor’s algorithm are not yet available, preventing relevant benchmarking experiments. Recently, several authors have attempted quantum factorizations via reductions to SAT or similar NP-hard problems. While this approach may shed light on algorithmic approaches for quantum solutions to NP-hard problems, in this paper we study and question its practicality. We find no evidence that this is a viable path toward factoring large numbers, even for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computers, as well as for various quantum annealing or other special purpose quantum hardware.

I’ll be concerned when we start seeing primes being factored when they’re not using compiled Shor algorithm primes. So far, most of the big “factorization records” cheat and use primes with only the LSBs differing, and aren’t remotely close to anything used in a real RSA prime. There was a good discussion of it on Security Now episode 1034 for those who are interested.

And Congress can impeach the president. Just because they can doesn’t mean they will or have any desire to, unfortunately.

Unfortunately America wouldn’t let an American appear at The Hague. Like I’m sure they’d send special forces to recover them before that.

Gdub signed the Hague Invasion Act back in 2002, so we’ve already got laws on the books to do it.

It’s cute you think we wouldn’t send the military to stop it. Gdub signed the Hague Invasion Act back in 2002

Oh, don’t worry. Gdub signed the Hague Invasion Act back in 2002, so we already have a legal justification to invade the Hague if they get uppity and checks notes hold these evil fucks accountable for their crimes.

So I feel like Epstein is the one thing that could actually get through to many in MAGA cult.

Too bad the majority will find a way to justify it rather than admit they supported everything they hated. Calling it now, “Trump had to rape those kids, how else could he have gotten in with those people to take them down?”

That would require the repubilcan party to have a spine, and they gave that up a decade ago to better lick trumps “boots”

No, you can make it even harder now that they’re going linux

“Fixing” something means it has to pass inspection. You can slap shit in with duct tape but you’re gonna be out what you paid plus the 4x because your fix was sub par.

My sibling in Talos, did you really think these AR games weren’t going to include tracking user movements when the ENTIRE POINT of the game is to be in specific places and they go out of their way to make sure people aren’t spoofing gps?

Require them to fix AND pay a fine, or let the city fix it and pay 4x the cost AND still pay the fine. Shit will stop happening quick.

Considering Iran shut the Internet off before the us/Israel attacked due to protests, I’m not sure we’ll ever know…

Akshually, they have Internet, it’s just turned off.

The Internet and infrastructure didn’t exist for billions of years, so they couldn’t be without something that didn’t exists

Weird, I wonder why the people Trump left to die less than a decade ago don’t want to help him out??

Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that’s only as long as they perform correctly.

Yeah, the ‘but’ is the entire problem. In my experience, LLM chatbots are like if you made a 12yo a junior admin and fed them speed. Very quick to give you a confident answer, but wrong more often than not. The worst part is a lot of what I’m doing is coding, and it gets basic commands and syntax wrong

Unless you plan on enslaving them, please refer to my previous comment RE: paying humans.

do you think they already know and simply enjoy being treated for the fools that they are?

You’re assuming they aren’t willingly participating in screwing over the constituents to line their pockets or g to give lucrative contracts to their friends