300 karma · joined July 19, 2021
As long as they wake up ...
But OP wasn't talking about solving optimalization problems, but understanding the rules of a business domain.
It's adding another failure point to the process for no gain.
I wouldn't take his word too seriously. According to him, corporate lawyers, administrative assistants and compliance officers shouldn't exist.
E.g. in Hungary I had a university CS professor that originally wanted to be a highschool teacher and a highschool physics teacher that originally wanted to be researcher. Their choice of degree didn't determine which outcome they got. The researcher and teacher curriculum had an 80%+ overlap.
Logic is just syntactic manipulation of formulas. By the early 90s logical reasoning was pretty much solved with classical AI (the last building block being constraint logic programming).
The other reason was that iron was very expensive in Japan as they had only low quality iron ore.