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It's just my guess, and it's not a solid one, but I think we will never have quantum computers that will be able to run any task, not even close. Because the qubits that such computers use will always have a genuinely random behaviour for all practical purposes; there will never be a magic trick th...

Yes it may take many more years simply because Moore’s Law has run its course. We'll see. Yeah, by the time we have software (or hardware in the case that we use it for more than simple computations) that's made for quantum computers, it seems likely to me that we'll have vastly superior machines u...

D) No quantum supremacy announcement Yeah no. Try next century. Because after we actually learn how to use the ones we supposedly have already, it's going to take many more years after that before we have optimized software capable of utilizing the power of a quantum computer. A lot of software sti...

1) 'Social democrats' take a sweeping win during the midterms 2) We enter a recession shortly before the next presidential election, which trump will be blamed for because he wants to live in this idiotic fantasy of having full culpability for our economy. 3) Bitcoin will not get an ETF 4) People wi...

There are left-leaning dictatorships. But if I were strictly using the definition of 'liberal' to mean what it is suppose to, no.

I used my INTUITION to predict that I am in fact missing evidence to make such an accusation but I suspected the evidence was there to be uncovered You...actually didn't? I mean, that's not all you did; You made up some ridiculous differentiation between 'using and mentioning' words that you didn't...

hat is quite a bent interpretation of words. If I say someone else is claiming something - that's not me affirming the claim, myself. Interesting distinction. Bent vs unbent? Almost as if you believe in objective interpretation or No, I just believe you are intentionally taking an interpretation of...

What I am suggesting is that you don't appear to recognise the use-mention distinction ...That is quite a bent interpretation of words. If I say someone else is claiming something - that's not me affirming the claim, myself. You understand, that if I talk about how someone claims to have seen ''big...

...You know, you have an awful lot of posts for someone who only joined this website 3 days ago...Usually, when something like that happens on here, it's actually a user trying to circumvent a previous ban. Your demeanor also strikes me as one of familiarity with this forum. do you use the word hypo...

I would say the obvious hypocrisy of criticizing someone else for something you've done yourself is the point you should've have taken away from that. If I wanted to make an effective ad-hominem, I probably would have brought up the clear insecurity you feel around other users suggesting that you po...

Are you bright? Well I can reason pretty damned well, my logic is impeccable. And I never take anyones word on anything unless I fully understand it's truth factor. So you'll never see me parrot anything. As far as exceptionally bright, no, just a B average, so not especially. My IQ was closer to g...

So, I started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, recently...And you know, a reoccurring concept in this show is in fact something called the 'prime directive' ; This is the only other time that I have ever heard this term ever being used - and Google tends to agree, as that is the only thing w...

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 12:39 amWhat's missing from this thread?

Maybe your sanity, because your replies seem to be making less and less sense as this thread goes on.

No, the primary issue is that it's not a par-to-par comparison. It's not even that the figure is technically unreliable, it's that it shouldn't be used as fuel for feminist activism, because it's not giving you the full picture of why that pay disparity exists. As far as the government recognizing i...

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 2:40 amSo far you're not giving any worthwhile arguments and I still stand with the court system.

Well I don't even know what your argument is, because it seems you're intentionally being very cryptic.