[Gravyness]

> This might be a case of a rabbit you do not want to chase.

I'm sure the researchers will all collectively realize this, if it were to be the case, and disregard their 12 year academic journey with their great salaries in favor of research into more important topics like world hunger, renewable energy, etc.

I'm so sure that the percentage of sureness is an imaginary, quantum-entangled value between -7 and 13 billion percent.

[cohomologo]

I research QC. Feel free to explain how my skills could be used to meaningfully contribute to the problem of world hunger or renewable energy while also keeping me employed --- going back to college to train in a different field isn't feasible. If it's not so easy, then perhaps it's logical that QC researchers and AI researchers and software devs aren't all jumping ship to work on "more important topics"...

You may just be spouting off, but I genuinely am asking. If someone else dissing QC research wants to make a pitch for a concrete plan on how to make a difference in the world with a physics PhD and years of experience in scientific computing, drop me a message.

[junon]

"academic journey" and "great salaries" generally don't go together.