alt Hacker Newsno. "everything is a scam so nothing is a scam" is not an argument.
these people dress up theoretical ivory tower research as something practical. It isnt. There was zero progress over the last decades.
This is not a real field like semiconductors where every improvement is driven by real demand that directly results in value and a better world.
Meanwhile this quantum fake science does nothing. It produces no value. It leeches value and credibility and presents itself as future and progress. While contributing nothing.
Ok, fake science...? It's not reeally fake.. Not more fake than how ever many hallucinated papers there are out there^^ (what I mean is that the scientific process is technically being followed).
Also, the dress up is done mostly by marketing and by the big egos in the field who think that because 5 big discoveries where made in the field then every discovery is a big discovery.
That being said, research in quantum computers has contributed to adjacent fields: cryo, lasers, controls, probably semiconductor too..
And on real world value, I am not fully caught up on the improvements currently offered say in optimization problems, but definitely there's definitely real contributions in quantum communications.
So... maybe you don't appreciate the contributions but there have been some.