Everyone talks about “quantum supremacy” like it’ll arrive as a headline.
What if it arrives quietly instead?
Not as a machine that breaks encryption overnight.
Not as AGI.
Not even as a public product.
But as a system that starts making statistically impossible predictions… just slightly ahead of reality.
Markets.
Weather.
Protein folding.
Human behavior.
At what point do we stop calling it computation and start calling it something else?
Feels like the first real quantum breakthrough won’t look impressive at all.
It’ll look coincidental.
Until it happens too often.