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Re:Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters by godelski on Sunday July 14, 2024 @10:53PM (#40964918)
> Continual "curve fitting" to the real world can create intelligence.

I'm going to need a citation on this bold claim. And by that I mean in the same vein as what Carl Sagan would say

  Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
Re:Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters by Grimblewald on Monday July 15, 2024 @06:17PM (#40971935)
I'd simply argue what we do is precisley that, so either we are intelligent, or we are not, however we might define that intelligence.