For any space-like event you can find reference frames where things happen in different order. For the time-like situation you described the order indeed exists within the cone, which is to say that causality exists.
I guess when you use it for generic "problem solving", brainstorming for solutions, this is great. That's what I use it for, and Gemini is my favorite model. I love when Gemini resists and suggests that I am wrong while explaining why. Either it's true, and I'm happy for that, or I can re-prompt based on the new information which doesn't allow for the mistake Gemini made.
On the other hand, I can also see why Claude is great for coding, for example. By default it is much more "structured". One can probably change these default personalities with some prompting, and many of the complaints found in this thread about either side are based on the assumption that you can use the same prompt for all models.
And who believes that the difference between 91.9% and 92.4% is significant in these benchmarks? Clearly these have margins of error that are swept under the rug.
How is "If" as a function even a drawback? It is largely seen as something desired, no? I would see that as a huge advantage, which allows for very powerful programming and meta-programming techniques.
This is not true. Mathematica has the concept of contexts. You can have each notebook have it's own unique context. Mathematica Packages create their own context too, we are not talking about module's here which are useful for local variable scoping. Packages and contexts lead to the isolation you are looking for. These are things that have been around since the initial Mathematica 1.0 in 1988 (!). https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Context.html
I've been at a few universities and labs as a postdoc, and a Mathematica license always came either as part of the University or the department. It might not be relevant in some disciplines, but generally I assume it must be used a lot to warrant such broad licensing (it is a tool I use daily as a theoretical physicist).
Meanwhile companies exist that have built essentially layers in front of chatbots, masking or filtering sensitive data, then forwarding the masked query, then unmasking it when giving back to the user(e.g. https://www.liminal.ai/ ).
Ideally you shouldn't paste sensitive information into the chat in first place. But when such companies can guarantee certain compliance types, it might be better to offer this rather than letting people use chats uncontrolled in companies.