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by josefx 1680 days ago
We can barely simulate a rough approximation of the brain of a worm. The world is filled with many things more impressive than early examples quantum computing.
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That is a very good counter-argument, in the style of this comics I really like: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-07-19

The big difference is that these early quantum devices (non-scalable noisy quantum computers) are *programmable* and *universal*. It is the difference between an analog computer that can simulate one thing of fundamentally bounded size and digital computers that can simulate "anything" with *in principle* unbounded size.