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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
You think people have any kind of a clue how conventional computing works? Like, ask your average slob how many transistors are in a cell phone and marvel at how many orders of magnitude they're off by. Ask em what a transistor even is.
Relative to quantum computing, yes, definitely. I got a pretty good idea of the inner workings of a computer by the end of my freshman year of college and that was in computer science, which is more about the theory of programming and less about actual physical hardware.
It's still the case that not a lot of people
study it, but that information is at least
accessible and fundamentally understandable in a way that quantum computing seems, to me, like it is not.