@Suiseiseki @fristi I'd say this thread is actually a pretty good illustration of some wrong assumptions "our side" makes when talking about this kind of thing; we might assume "normal" people know (or want to know) how computers, cars, whatever work and to be able to, you know, do things. The truth is, not only "normal" people don't know how shit works, they don't want to know.
You know that "hmm, this looks interesting, I wonder how it's done" feeling? Well, most people don't. They don't care how their computer, phone, car, tv, whatever works. Computers aren't for, well, doing computations and they don't want to learn how to use them, they don't want to mess around with them, experiment, try doing something fun, they want to be told "click on that circle thing to go to the internet" like some kind of brain dead zombies. People don't know that "the internet" is just a bunch of networked computers, they don't know what a server is (don't even get me started on discord "servers") they aren't aware that facebook/youtube/spotify run on a computer somewhere out there, ig it just exist in the air somewhere.
Same with any other machine, ask a randon person what kind of fuel injection their car uses (carb, single point, multi point, direct injection) and they'll freeze in fear. Speaking of which, you almost certainly have seen someone freeze at a meesage on a computer/phone/atm but when you read the thing aloud to them they suddenly know what to do.
And all this includes people that "work with computers", I've seen devs using vanilla google chrome with no extensions and not know how to open the fucking cmd and ping the fucking server.
Btwif this looks like one single massive hard to read sentence I'm really sorry bu that's how my brain thinks. Ig I could Ask ChatGPT™️ to rewrite it but I'd rather not even write anything than do that. Speaking of which, try explaining how LLMs are just massive statistical models predicting the next word in a text and you shouldn't trust them with anything important... Ok i'll stop here, sorry for the long rant.

TLDR we dramatically overestimate the cognitive abilities of an average person, also see image