There is lots of doubt about the military’s level of advancement on the project but it’s a good thing to keep in mind just how long the SR-71 was around before anyone knew anything about it. The Government still has the ability to attract talent and many of the technological advances we take advantage of today came via the military (nuclear power for example).
Right it’s purely pattern recognition.. but that is also the basis for human intelligence.
“We would just be observing a fake universe instead of a real one, but not understanding it.”
“Eastern traditions, particularly Buddhist traditions, have long contended that we are living in world of illusion, and that we go through multiple lives trying to work out our individual quests, all of which are stored beyond the “rendered world”. There is a giant system that not only stores this but creates new situations for us to get our “achievements”. Sure sounds like a Video Game to me.”
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/quantum-computers-used-hard-drives-made-dna/