That probably depends on what their PhD was in. You wouldn’t want me to design it. You’d want someone who’d worked themselves into the ground for years to learn everything they could about small submarine design. PhD-level intelligence is a pretty useless term. PhD-level knowledge is a real thing.

OK well, thanks for spreading the word that educated people should not be listened to, not enough of that outlook prevalent at this time

Yeah…that’s not what I was going for. It’s the years of work, rather than native intelligence, that earns the expertise. There’s no such thing as PhD-level intelligence. But there is such a thing as PhD-level knowledge.

It doesn’t work that way, especially not with PhDs. It’s not the decathlon

This is your regular reminder that educated in one field is not educated in all fields. As much as many phds like to declaim about things that they know no more about than any random person on the street, it doesn't work that way.

No. You'd be better off if a naval engineer designed it. Preferably one specializing in submarines and particularly small submarines. A computer scientist? (Waves hand.) Not so much.