On: P vs. NP

[VLM]

The classic low hanging fruit problem. Whenever we've pumped an oil well dry, we've almost always found another easy to pump well, therefore all oil wells are easy to exploit and we'll never run out of oil. There are other analogies with the ease of catching wild passenger pigeons and bison.

[cwillu → VLM]

In point of fact, the survey gives a bit more detail than what the parent implied.