[yifanlu]

Assuming everything he says is 100% true. Why can’t some people just work on things that interest them because they interest them? Why does everything need to be “useful” (as in useful right here right now)? Okay resource is finite and has to be allocated. But so what? What’s the point of science and technology if not to enable others to have a more meaningful life? For some, that meaning is in exploring “useless” problems. Let the people who want to make better classical computers do so. Let people who want to study quantum computers do so. I can assure you that the number of people who study/work on quantum computers is so low that convincing all of them to drop their work and do something more “practical” will not make the world a better place.

[scottlocklin]

Everything I said is 100% true. Citation: nobody has found an error yet.

I think it would be great if people took this up as a hobby. I don't even mind wasting VC on stuff like this, and said so. I object to researchers selling this to young scientists as a potential career. It's not! It is a glass bead game, and acting like it isn't is the moral equivalent of fraud.