I think that this problem is in the same broad category as “invent general relativity” or “prove the Poincare conjecture”. That is, for one thing quantity doesn’t easily replace talent (you couldn’t invent GR just as easily with 50 mediocre physicists instead of one Einstein), and, for another thing, the work is often hard to parallelize (50 Einsteins wouldn’t invent GR 50 times as fast). So, you can’t solve it just by spending lots of resources in a short time frame.
I think that this problem is in the same broad category as “invent general relativity” or “prove the Poincare conjecture”. That is, for one thing quantity doesn’t easily replace talent (you couldn’t invent GR just as easily with 50 mediocre physicists instead of one Einstein), and, for another thing, the work is often hard to parallelize (50 Einsteins wouldn’t invent GR 50 times as fast). So, you can’t solve it just by spending lots of resources in a short time frame.
Yeah, I agree with this view and I believe it’s the most common view among MIRI folks.