[Dailydave] A change

[Nick FitzGerald]

Ben Nagy wrote:

[snip much good stuff]
> So, while I think that 'simpler' is certainly unassailable, I would
> need more than a two word assertion to be convinced that it is 'much'
> simpler. If you give one team a million dollars and 100 people
> selected at random from the top 10% graduating computer science and
> you give the other team their pick of any 4 researchers in the world
> and 3 imacs, whom does the smart money think will produce more weapons
> grade 0day after 6 months?
> 
> (No it's not a fair comparison. It's a thought experiment.)

I think that what you missed was that in China it's much less so/not 
about scaling with money and more about that, probabilistically, they 
have around 20% of the people with the right brain-jitsu talent.

Oh, and _they_ live in a culture that means they are more likely to see 
it as their obligation to aide their national interests as directed by 
their government, who in turn have fairly well-developed systems for 
filtering out those who show all kinds of special talents and nurturing 
them to develop those talents to the maximum.

That just may well scale...



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald