Intelligence isn't a one-dimensional attribute, though. People can exhibit talents for pattern recognition and deep reasoning without being enthralled by gossip. People can have a compulsion to tinker without ever meaningfully improving their objects of obsession.
A poodle might be socially or biologically complex, but daily conversations about the poodle won't necessarily reveal any of that complexity. In the same vein, once you've built one solar generator, you've built them all. Simplicity in these system is one of their major appeals. You don't need a 6 hour long WTYP episode to explain why your solar rig isn't working or why the neighbor's poodle shat in your yard again. The explanations tend to be pretty straightforward.
Intelligence isn't a one-dimensional attribute, though. People can exhibit talents for pattern recognition and deep reasoning without being enthralled by gossip. People can have a compulsion to tinker without ever meaningfully improving their objects of obsession.
A poodle might be socially or biologically complex, but daily conversations about the poodle won't necessarily reveal any of that complexity. In the same vein, once you've built one solar generator, you've built them all. Simplicity in these system is one of their major appeals. You don't need a 6 hour long WTYP episode to explain why your solar rig isn't working or why the neighbor's poodle shat in your yard again. The explanations tend to be pretty straightforward.