[Dylan16807]

So the argument is that the chance of having an error goes up exponentially as you add more qubits, 1:1 with the size of the problem state?

Well that's easy enough to understand, even though I have absolutely no idea if it's true or not.

[eru]

If the error necessarily goes up exponentially, and error correction or dampening can not possibly work, I would count that as new knowledge about the basics of quantum mechanics.

Basically, either quantum computing works or we'll learn a lot more about quantum mechanics we didn't already know.