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 Yesterday I thought, "  what if a Type 1.x civilization on the Kardashev scale built a city-wide quantum computerised world in outer space !? " and the thought just sort of felt so cool. Just cooling the city to a millionth of a degree above zero is going to take some genius manipulating of petajoules of energy. Which is sort of funny. That so much heat is what is required to produce so much cold. Even more fun is the realization that quantum systems work well in a simulation of a heat dead universe - no energy from outside at all, no problem. Whoah. The idea comes from macroscopic quantum devices ( https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Macroscopic_quantum_ phenomena ) like Josephson Junctions and SQUIDS.  Technically, qubits millions of times bigger than electrons. But just modelling any world is not fun. What if we allow  evolutionary processes  to happen in this world? Not of life no. No living thing can live in such hellish cold.  Or can it? Boltzmann br...

I wanted to share with you today one of my earliest beautiful metaphors for the field of quantum computing. The first time I likened it to the power unlocked by diversity and inclusion. Because to me, classical computing can be likened to pure totalitarianism. If bits are the human in a classical computer, then the fact that these computers sort of operate by brute force is telling of how limited they are. Like this outdated political model, the only care is for centralization of the work of independent” bits. Reducing everything to numbers seen with the eyes. Destroying value while creating as high a hierarchy as can be fueled, all in the name of efficiency by economies of scale. All controlled by one master human King/CPU/GPU(the worst). How? When 2 input bits only output 1 bit in classical logic gates. In the same way, abstracting any piece of a totalitarian hierarchy, 2 or more people at the “bottom” must be sacrificed for the sake of the one at the “top”, all in the name...