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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by throwaway314155 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @11:01AM (#41750351)
Humans can survive in space and on the moon because our intelligence is robust to environments we never encountered (or evolved to encounter). That's "all" general intelligence is meant to refer to. General just means robust to the unknown.

I've seen some use "super" (as in superhuman) intelligence lately to describe what you're getting at.

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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by __MatrixMan__ on Saturday October 05, 2024 @12:41PM (#41751098)
Super feels to me like it's a difference in degree rather than in kind. Something with intelligences {A, b, c} might be super intelligent compared with {a, b, c}. i.e. more intelligent in domain A.

But if one has {a, b, c} and the other has {b, c, d} neither is more or less intelligent than the other, they just have different capabilities. "Super" is a bit too one-dimensional for the job.

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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by throwaway314155 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @03:26PM (#41752277)
I don't think using set notation is really helping your case here but (I think?) I agree.
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