[ExI] Can we understand ourselves? was: 1DIQ: an IQ metaphor to explain superintelligence

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Word contains 45 million lines of code. It would take a programmer (reading 3,000 lines of code a day) over 40 years to read it all. By the time he's finished, will he even still remember the first lines he read all those decades ago, and how they relate to the rest?

Not arguing the point, just the specifics of this example.

Only 3,000 lines of code per day on average?  Ha!  La-zy!  (Yeah,
yeah, I know some people say the average is only 400-800 lines per
day.  Perhaps for average programmers...)

And that's before factoring in tools that can augment the speed even
more.  Granted, then the thing that is doing the understanding is the
combined system of the programmer and those tools - but the best
programmers have long since been living augmented in this fashion.

Still, even boosting to 300,000 lines per day would take 150 days,
with such focus that the programmer might not fully remember the first
lines of code upon reading the last.  Your general point stands.