Re: my current position (was: AUDA)

2002-01-11 Thread hal
Wei writes: Suppose you want to crack a bank's encryption key, which is worth $4 million to you, and there are two ways to do it. You can spend $2 million to build a quantum computer to crack the key, or you can spend $3 million to build a classical computer to do this. Now if you believe the

Re: my current position (was: AUDA)

2002-01-11 Thread Wei Dai
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:59:47PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a lot of trouble understanding this view. Thanks for taking the time to write the questions. I hope this response helps. Why should you care more or less about slow to compute universes? I don't see any reason to