That's a bit like saying you're know 'a lot' about SSD design because you know taking a hammer to it breaks the computer in some way. I think we probably know

That's a bit like saying you're know 'a lot' about SSD design because you know taking a hammer to it breaks the computer in some way. I think we probably know a lot less than laymen assume. Its a big conversation to define "what we know" but "a lot" assumes at theoretical and experimental groundwork that most likely doesn't exist. I find the research I've been exposed to is a mile wide but an inch deep. If we had more depth, we'd be hobby coding AI because we'd understand the basic concepts the same way a even jr developer can do enough research to hobby code a complex and featured 3D game engine, something a coder from the 60 or 70s couldn't do. We simply don't have these kinds of understandings.