On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 6:43 AM, <ghib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > A lot is understood about intelligence in humans >
Almost nothing is understood about intelligence in humans, otherwise we could double our IQ by knowing which modes of thought are productive and which just waste time and lead nowhere. > > we can do things like make a list of life outcomes that are most > strongly tied in with intelligence > And if a machine can obtain more of those outcomes than I can then the machine is smarter than me. > you've said the hard problem is intelligence and not consciousness. > Yes, that's why so many people on this list have a consciousness theory but not one has a intelligence theory. There is no easier job in the world than being a consciousness theorist because any theory works about as well as any other, and even if you happen to stumble upon the correct one there is no way to know that you have. On the other hand there is no harder job in the world than being a intelligence theorist, but at least if you happen to stumble upon the correct intelligence theory the fact that you've suddenly become the world's first trillionaire is a pretty good hint that your theory is on the right track. > > humans can learn skills by repetition and we have to be able to say > whether these correlations are about learning skills or intelligence. > More pathetic sore looser rationalizations, you didn't win because you're smarter than me, you're just more skilful. And so it came to pass that after outmaneuvering 8 billion people the last surviving member of the species Homo Sapiens turned to the Jupiter Brain 4 seconds before the Godlike computer sent it into oblivion forever and said "nevertheless I still think I'm *really* smarter than you". John K Clark -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
