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Because it was always bullshit. There was never any real progress on it, so they switched their focus to AI and are now swimming in investment capital. No sense backtracking to older scams, when they're running such a lucrative new one.
I agree. It is hokum and I've been saying it for a decade (I have accumulated 10^6 downvotes for speaking this opinion).
But I think deep down I'm snooping to see if people who follow it more closely than I have lately, have detected if the gig is finally up and nobody wants to talk about it?
e: Couldn't deal with minor typing errors, fixed
e2: Not that the concepts of QC are complete hokum, more refined to say, in my opinion, there is no realistic possibility to extrapolate today's minor wins and proof-of-concepts into functional tools in the near future. QM by it's very nature prevents large-scope QC in it's current incarnation and imagining. Kinda ironic. The scientific community only recently figured out in 2022 that locality isn't a thing. I feel spacetime is a great model that needs complete overhaul, and SR is done for. Opinion only but QC is cart first horse later.