> It's a good enough metaphor that maps to a real thing. My entire point, which I’m not sure you addressed is that no, it’s not a good metaphor. Water “floods”

> It's a good enough metaphor that maps to a real thing. My entire point, which I’m not sure you addressed is that no, it’s not a good metaphor. Water “floods” a 3d topology in a predictable manner with regards to the volume the topology can contain. The entire argument is that progress is observable, predictable, and limitless, and the “islands” are a rhetorical device. My argument was turning the rhetorical device around and pointing out that we know so little about intelligence and AI that describing it in this way is not meaningful beyond sounding intellectual.