[extropy-chat] morons in office

[Kevin Freels]

So Eliezer even disagrees with Eliezer. This is exactly whatI mean. :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eliezer Yudkowsky" <sentience at pobox.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] morons in office


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