[extropy-chat] morons in office

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Kevin Freels wrote:
> Intelligence is subjective. Also, testing ability can vary with
> environmental conditions and with changes in mental states such as anger,
> anxiety and emotional stress. Also, I never understood how you could
> quantify such a thing with a number when people have such a hard time
> agreeing on what intelligence is to begin with.
> Most can;t even agree on whether or not dolphins and chimpanzees are
> intelligent.
> 
> So I pose this question: What is intelligence?

Eliezer-2002 says:  "Intelligence" is the ability to model, predict, and 
manipulate reality.  See also http://singinst.org/LOGI/foundations.html.

Eliezer-2004 says:  "Intelligence" is the idiosyncratic human 
implementation of optimization.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence