[adastra22]

That seems like a damning critique, but the reality is that quantum capabilities can and likely will advance as a series of step functions. The quantum machines we can build now are so noisy that we can’t even factor 3 digit numbers. However low nois quantum computers are on the drawing board and would bring many order of magnitude improvements nearly overnight.

[tromp]

> The quantum machines we can build now are so noisy that we can’t even factor 3 digit numbers.

Or most 2-digit numbers, for that matter. After more than a decade, the record still stands at 21=3x7 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization_records#...