On 12/8/06, J. Storrs Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I had to guess, I would say the boundary is at about IQ 140, so the top 1% of humanity is universal -- but that's pure speculation; it may well be that no human is universal, because of inductive bias, and it takes a community to search the space of biasses and thus be universal.
If you come up with an idea of "universal", based on your experience with what people have done, and you look at every living intelligent thing in nature, and then conclude that only the very top 1% you observe of the very smartest species you observe is universal -- doesn't it seem likely that, if you had a sample of a smarter species to observe, with an average IQ of 140 and some going over 200, you would observe them doing some even more impressive things, and conclude that "universal" applied only to the top 1% of them? And if you had experience with machines with IQs ranging from 1000-2000... you would conclude that "universal" was exemplified only by the ones above 1900. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
