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Re:The Human Ecology of Overshoot: A Major ‘Population Corre... by neovialogistics on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:59PM (#37226391)
That's a naïve view of intelligence, uninformed by the academic consensuses in philosophy, economics, biology, psychology etc. Additional intelligence, for any agent, is simply additional ability to reason about the world in relation to the agent's preferences.

Intelligence does not create new preferences or erase old ones.

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Re:The Human Ecology of Overshoot: A Major ‘Population Corre... by pasabagi on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:34PM (#37226821)
> consensuses

That's not true. You're describing instrumental reason. That's not the totality of intelligence for anybody except a certain breed of economist.

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