Nope. I think, for example, that the process of evolution is universal -- it shows the key feature of exponential learning growth, but with a very slow clock. So there're other models besides a mammalian brain.
My mental model is to ask of a given person, suppose you had a community of 10,000 people just like him and they lived 10,000 years -- starting from high-school math, could they prove Fermat's Last Theorem? This is significantly more than the effort by all the mathemeticians who ultimately did build the solution. In the environment of ancestral adaptation, there was a lot more value to learning what society generally knew and doing it competently, than abstract symbolic innovation. Indeed that's still very largely true. Genetically, more than one percent of innovators would have been a waste. Josh On Wednesday 13 December 2006 17:44, Philip Goetz wrote: > 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 ----- 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
