On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Tim Tyler <[email protected]> wrote:

> A new equation for intelligence



That solves it then, lol. Entertaining talk about the more imperialistic
aspects of life and intelligence, but certainly not the answer to how to
build intelligence, the "magic" methinks lies in the heuristics that allow
you to maximize options quickly and socially (I doubt Einstein could
deflect asteroids while stranded on a desert island). Also, I remain
sceptical that this or any other metric captures the physicality of
intelligence, I am particularly concerned by the extreme physicality of,
let's say, the body, which is ready to go this way or that with
temperature, pressure, food etc long before Bruce Willis takes a one way
ticket to space.

My working definition (of the non-physicality perhaps) of intelligence is
something along the lines of : an agent's attempt to find out the "truth of
other agents", to share their subjectivity and point of view, whether
external or internal. This allows, among other things, to collaborate and
blow up asteroids. In such engineering projects however, just as in society
in general,  one has to make sacrifices and give up many degrees of freedom
in order to reap the ultimate reward. A bit like winning at chess or go -
therefore, I declare the equation limited in utility and value.

AT



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