Is that even an argument though? A better way to say the same thing is &quot;Easy problems get solved first&quot;. Or another way to say it &quot;You aren&#x27;t going to spend a billion on a problem if you solve it in 10 million&quot;.<p>What we have here is a measurement problem. For example looking at curing polio and curing AIDS as one issue is disingenuous, it tells us nothing about the complexity of the actual problem we are solving. To cure AIDS we may have to solve many hundreds of different problems, many of them usable in other applications.