As a cherry on top, a British think of the children org went as far as to speculate over whether quantum computing might be a "threat" in the future (such as in "making uploading easier").

This is a technology which is virtually non-existent. What does exist exists in the form of multi-million dollar machines, cooled to near absolute zero. These only manipulate about a dozen "qubits" (it is cheaper / easier to just engage in more conventional computing for the same tasks).

While in security, we have more concrete ideas of how it might be a threat (and how to mitigate that), if it were ever to be a practical tool, in this case, it is purely aimless speculation.

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Even if it became practical in the future, it would likely be adopted for very narrow use cases, and there aren't that many. It's not a magical super computer like in the films.

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