What Extropic is building

Could someone smarter than me explain if this is a big deal or just hype? The work sound promising, but I wonder how long it would take to build and validate.

the engineering alone will be a nightmare

I have a suspicion that a lot of people are nodding along because they don't want to seem like the village idiot.

I'm similarly suspicious, and find it curious that this is the first I'm hearing about this at all. I don't have personal connections in physics or AI circles but I feel like I'd usually expect to have read mention of these ideas before finding this press release.

Man, I am not a pessimist and I am very bullish on AI-the-field but my spidey sense is tingling that this is BS.

- It is written in a way that sacrifices legibility for supposed precision but because the terms used can't really be applied precisely, it's equivalent to spurious digits in a scientific calculation. The usual reason this occurs is to obfuscate or to overawe the audience.

- It is hard to overstate the difficulty of beating semiconductor with a wholly new branch of technology. They're so insanely good. People have been trying to beat them for decades and there's not even a solid theoretical thesis as to how to do so. Even the theoretical advantage of quantum computing is predicated on error correction being scalable which is a totally open question even theoretically.