I am highly aware of the exact wording of the question, but thank you for checking. Your point makes it even more unbelieveable.
Things do depend on which professions you see it as handling adequately in the starting case, keeping in mind that it has to be adequate at ‘most’. Also, what you consider a ‘profession’. Lawyer, doctor, scientist, engineer, programmer… manager, carpenter, plumber, mason, police, fire fighter… receptionist, trucker, waiter, cook, retail clerk...
By the time you can be adequate at ‘most’ of those jobs, you’ve got the ‘navigating human spaces’ and ‘interacting with humans’ bit pretty well licked, so the difficulty of these matters is already handled by the time you start the clock.
If on the other hand you cut it off after the second ellipsis (the last few are jobs but not ‘professions’) then you might be able to be only halfway decent at navigating spaces heavily optimized for humans, but you have to already be positively ace at interacting with people.
If on the other hand you cut it off after the first ellipsis, and you’re really just talking hard-core Professions with a capital P, then maaybe it can get away with being effectively immobile to begin with… but even in this extreme case, I can’t see giving it the ability to walk, run, crawl, climb, shimmy, skoonch, and brachiate, or full equivalents, being a task that would span more than 30 years even taking the present as a starting point—and we haven’t got HLMI today.
I am highly aware of the exact wording of the question, but thank you for checking. Your point makes it even more unbelieveable.
Things do depend on which professions you see it as handling adequately in the starting case, keeping in mind that it has to be adequate at ‘most’. Also, what you consider a ‘profession’. Lawyer, doctor, scientist, engineer, programmer… manager, carpenter, plumber, mason, police, fire fighter… receptionist, trucker, waiter, cook, retail clerk...
By the time you can be adequate at ‘most’ of those jobs, you’ve got the ‘navigating human spaces’ and ‘interacting with humans’ bit pretty well licked, so the difficulty of these matters is already handled by the time you start the clock.
If on the other hand you cut it off after the second ellipsis (the last few are jobs but not ‘professions’) then you might be able to be only halfway decent at navigating spaces heavily optimized for humans, but you have to already be positively ace at interacting with people.
If on the other hand you cut it off after the first ellipsis, and you’re really just talking hard-core Professions with a capital P, then maaybe it can get away with being effectively immobile to begin with… but even in this extreme case, I can’t see giving it the ability to walk, run, crawl, climb, shimmy, skoonch, and brachiate, or full equivalents, being a task that would span more than 30 years even taking the present as a starting point—and we haven’t got HLMI today.