2013/3/29 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> > > On 28 Mar 2013, at 18:59, meekerdb wrote: > > On 3/28/2013 7:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> Intelligence, in my opinion is rather easy too. It is a question of >>> "abstract thermodynamic", intelligence is when you get enough heat while >>> young, something like that. It is close to courage, and it is what make >>> competence possible. >>> >> >> ?? >> >> >>> Competence is the most difficult, as they are distributed on transfinite >>> lattice of incomparable degrees. Some can ask for necessary long work, and >>> can have negative feedback on intelligence. >>> >> >> That sounds like a quibble. Intelligence is usually just thought of as >> the the ability to learn competence over a very general domain. >> > > That's why I think that intelligence is simple, almost a mental attitude, > more akin to courage and humility, than anything else. > Competence asks for gift or work, and can often lead to the feeling that > we are more intelligent than others, which is the first basic symptom of > stupidity. > > That sounds more and more "1984"ish... War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength and now more intelligent is stupid.
Quentin > Bruno > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~**marchal/ <http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/> > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > everything-list+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<everything-list%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to > everything-list@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> > . > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/everything-list?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
