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And if they couldn't sharpen a knife? Would you still trust them to cook a 5 course dinner?

• jedberg 5y ago
  Sure. Just like I trust race car drivers to drive even though they don't know how to fix the car. As long as they understand the basics of how the car parts interact, they'll be just fine driving it.
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  • OJFord 5y ago
    But in practice, a good one probably won't let anyone else sharpen their knives, nevermind be unable to do it. It'd be a bit like 'someone else has set up a software development environment for you, now write some code' I suppose.
  • dfadsadsf 5y ago
    Good race car drivers actually know how car works and I bet can fix many things. Race car drivers take the car to the limit and understanding how car works is competitive advantage - they can help mechanics tune the car, can diagnose problems that show up only at high speed, understand pro/cons of different suspesions and how they work, etc. On the other hand typical Uber driver does not need to know anything about the car other than what pedals are for and you turn the wheel to steer. If he tries to take the car to the limit, he probably gets 1 star rating from scared passenger. No need to know how car works. You decide whether Google engineers are more like race car drivers or Uber drivers.
    • walshemj 5y ago
      But they probably don't have a MSc like lot of F1 mechanics do.