Re:Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018)
by luckylion on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:34PM
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Yet we have a bunch of general attributes we expect when we say "car". Maybe "she's smart" is rather like "she has a car". You don't know whether it's a Porsche or a Truck, gas or electric, but you'll generally rely on her being able to cover larger distances than on foot, and at higher speeds, while also hauling some reasonable amount of luggage.
Re:Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018)
by SpicyLemonZest on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:31PM
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Absolutely true, but I'm not sure that's really a point of confusion. Almost everyone would agree that smart people aren't automatically good at athletics, or poetry, or woodworking. If you've seen people say that kind of thing I agree they're being silly.
Real world fitness landscapes are complex and multidimensional.
My comment was a little snarky because while I like this site quite a bit for many reasons I do get a little fatigued by the prevalence of the IQ cult. The notion that there is a single metric on which brains can be sorted is sort of a sacred dogma around here, and one which to me is obviously quite wrong. All it takes is a casual glance at intelligence as it actually manifests in the only real world example of an intelligent system we have: biology. It's clearly a multidimensional quality that can be optimized for a large range of things just like anything else.
If intelligence is multidimensional in all other living things, by what rationale would we conclude that human intelligence is one-dimensional?
... or ...
If virtually every engineered or evolved capability is subject to multi-dimensional optimization, then why not also intelligence?