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I don't see why my grandma - if she was still alive - or my mom's friend wouldn't be booking Airbnbs; people of at least "average" intelligence by the way, except for their issues with basic math. My mom's friend is an avid global traveler in fact, and if I remember correctly she used Airbnb on several occasions in the past, and yes, she does her own bookings.

[edited to remove a bit of my comment because it did actually come across as rude, my apologies]

Summing dice together is not the only ability you need to solve this puzzle.

It's not the totality of what is being tested.

In other words, it's instructive to consider why a computer struggles to solve it with this particular photographic presentation, and why a person might.

What the fuck does summing dice together have to do with booking an Airbnb?

“If you cannot lift 100 lbs over your head, should you be operating a fork lift?”

If technology doesn't make things easier, what's the point of it?

Well, this is a cynical answer, but I think in this case: make money. Making things easier is one way to use technology to make money. Having a significant market share and making it difficult for others to enter the market is another way to use technology to make money.

There was (probably) a point in history where AirBnB existed to make things easier. Now I'm pretty sure it's just there to make money.

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