It’s this. He doesn’t care about the details, he just wants the trivia. He’s not interested in understanding anything, he just wants the power point version of reality. Cliff’s notes for reading assignments in school.

yeah it’s going to be the same scam only this time without those pesky regulators checking to see if it actually works and spooking the investors

it’s interesting that Yud doesn’t realize that Cyc is basically what he thought Lenat should have done with Eurisko

“a journalist goes through your public statements looking for the most damning or hypocritical things you’ve ever said out of context” is an incredibly tricky situation to come out of looking good

only if, you know, your public statements contain lots of damning things

It turns AI really is going to try to wipe out the humans. Just, you know, indirectly through human activity trying to make it happen.