I think the point is that playing whack a mole is an effective practical strategy to shore up individual weaknesses (or even classes of weaknesses) but that doe

I think the point is that playing whack a mole is an effective practical strategy to shore up individual weaknesses (or even classes of weaknesses) but that doesn’t get you to general reasoning unless you think that intelligence evolved this way. Given the adaptability of intelligence across the animal kingdom to novel environments never seen before, I don’t think that can be anything other than a short term strategy for AGI.