Generation is the default benchmark because it is easy to measure... And is "productive" (if that has meaning) but is inefficient.

Understanding is much harder. The challenge today is to build systems that make ideas more coherent, inspectable, and transferable.

Using Star Trek as a template, ask if will we build more Vulcan-like technology, using intelligence to expand knowledge and insight, or scale Borg-like accumulation and assimilation.

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