capitalism is built on the fallacy of infinite growth and a corollary of that fallacy, embraced by the liberal capitalists, is infinite progress, or infinite increases in technological efficiency to be more precise. the processor industry presents this as moore's law. but our understanding of modern physics is that our universe has very hard limits and boundaries that prevent infinite increases in technological efficiency and that moore's law will reach a hard stopping point. all theoretical and experimental evidence suggests that qubit error-correction in an economically and environmentally feasible way is completely physically infeasible and outside of actually real boundaries set by actual science.
quantum computers are not science, they're science fiction.
research into the real energy intensive stuff done at university labs has a legit purpose. this technology might emerge as a new kind of mainframe for governments and large corporate enterprises, with minimal to no applications for the general public.
but what xanadu is doing is blatant nonsense. this is not cutting edge research, it's a scam to make money on the stock market, and canada should be embarrassed that it's government fell for it and bought into it.
but if you're paying close attention, that is the answer to the apparent contradictions presented by mark carney as an actual human being. much of what we're hearing from mark carney cannot be coherently deconstructed because it is little more than disingenuous bullshit, and the only constituency he really represents is investors looking to capitalize on short term stock options.
xanadu will make some scummy people a lot of money from inflated trading and then it will collapse without bringing anything to the market. but that's not an error that needs to be corrected, that's the plan.
when i was a kid, my sister became friends with a girl that lived down the street, and my father got to know her father fairly well, through going to pta meetings around the fisher park area, in central ottawa. the school was st pius X. we lived just south of fisher and baseline.
this guy had a phd in chemistry, but he was an unemployed drunk because he made millions on the bre-x scam. he should have been working on fusion, but he gave up on it. he thought it was impossible. it's more feasible than quantum error correction at scale.
he used to get shit faced in my basement fairly regularly and i learned a fair amount from him about what the kind of person i didn't want to become was like. to quote jello biafra when i should be quoting greg graffin, it was a lesson in what not to become.
but that's what xanadu is and how xanadu will end and is what carney actually is. so, cash in and out while you can. whatever.
but don't expect this to go anywhere.
the state of error correction in quantum computing in 2026 is that they are making progress because they've yet to hit that physical limit. hey, you should do the experiment. but at the end of the day we're just stupid monkeys that basically can't learn and continue to repeat the same mistakes.
that $200 million dollars would be better spent on climate resilience policies at the current point in time.