Right but my point there is that it might be possible to break a particular encryption primitive. But throwing more money at the problem is almost certainly not going to get you an answer one way or the other any time soon. Whereas waiting 50 years (ie performing more fundamental research in general) might. Or might not.
The worm problem is similar. If our current theories were "good enough" we would be able to simulate them. I see no reason to believe (and many to doubt) that throwing more money at the problem would solve it much faster. For that to be true we would among other things need to be capable of articulating where precisely the current shortfalls are to begin with.
The worm problem is similar. If our current theories were "good enough" we would be able to simulate them. I see no reason to believe (and many to doubt) that throwing more money at the problem would solve it much faster. For that to be true we would among other things need to be capable of articulating where precisely the current shortfalls are to begin with.