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by edanm 2368 days ago
Interesting. Although to be fair, in this particular case, the qualifier does make sense, exaclty because it is a one-time event. It means "the first time we build a Quantum Computer that is capable of doing something a classical computer isn't capable of, thereby proving it really is Quantum, thereby proving Quantum Computation can really happen in our universe". It really is a one-time event to prove a specific hypothesis.