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How interesting!

This discussion itself offers insight on the actual need for technical professionals to be able to logically reason through non-obvious [information] structures.

I've anecdotally suspected that the ability to synthesize information into a navigable data structure and subsequently analyze it, both from internal and external POV, is not a hard requirement for the majority SWE positions.

Sentience and intelligence are vastly different things.

As it stands, these systems have yet to make a compelling case for intelligence.

Google: what is a good batting average

Answer: .300

In modern times, a season batting average of .300 or higher is considered to be excellent, and an average higher than .400 a nearly unachievable goal.

"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -- Mark Twain

I just never expected this to apply on such a massive scale.

This seems like a nonstarter until they can ensure that a hydrogen-based economy does not adversely impact the earth's ozone layer.

They may build it only to shut it down as the world waits decades to recover from something potentially worse than the CFC debacle.

I think they refer to the failure mode where: Nothing happened for a day or two. All the experts travel to the location to try to understand what went wrong, in situ... and THEN the explosion occurs.

I am fairly new to Y-Combinators Hacker News. Unfortunately, I've run head-long into this very issue on this forum. It ruins the experience.

There is value in communicating figuratively and/or with metaphors. When creatively solving problems, looking for trends or drawing a hypothesis out of the ether, it is often desirable to avoid specifics.

In my opinion, one's inability to comprehend and respond to any given statement at multiple levels limits their upward mobility.