[ExI] What are among the world's most important problems to solve, why?

[William Flynn Wallace]

dave - Are the most intelligent people the best problem solvers? Above
average IQ, how much does intelligence help solve problems? Seems like
other factors like curiosity, persistence, knowledge, creativity, charisma,
etc., play significant roles in solving real-world problems, but we don't
ponder supercreative AIs or fear supercharismatic AIs (which we probably
should, if such a thing is possible).

​Many psychologists are now trying to make the case for social IQ and
Emotional IQ as equally important or even more so.  And that now cliche' -
ability to postpone rewards.

​High IQ people can solve the kinds of problems that are administered in IQ
tests - duh.  I don't know how many hits you would get if you tried to find
all the studies on IQ and what it correlates with, but I'd guess tens of
thousands.  What they typically find is that IQ is related to darn near
everything, but is only a part of the picture.

I think of IQ, as measured by the usual tests, as the enabler.  If you have
a high one, there are things you can learn that people with lower scores
cannot, or do so with much greater difficulty or only understand the thing
at a lower level, perhaps less abstract.

 For IQ* not​*
*​*
*​ *to relate to solving some problem, you are saying that mentally
retarded people can do as well or better than average or above people.*​ *And
I'll give you one:


Two choice problem:  A or B.  Reward is, say, an M and M.  Make choice A
rewards 60% of the time and B at 40%.  After a while the Ss figure out the
payoff ratio.  What the normals do is called probability matching.  They
choose A about 60% of the time and B about 40%.  The MR Ss choose A all the
time, and thus get more rewards than the normals do.  Go figure.

bill w

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 12, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Superintelligence: high, moderate, high: 18
>>
>>
>> Maybe my own sub-super intelligence is the problem, but I don't
>> understand why superintelligence is considered important. AI/singularity
>> fans seem to consider it practically a superpower, but I think it's
>> overrated. Am I wrong?
>>
>>
>> In practical terms, then of it as a super-problem-solver. You have it (or
>> them) and if they are benign you can much more easily solve much of the
>> other problems. Or so the story goes.
>>
>
> Are the most intelligent people the best problem solvers? Above average
> IQ, how much does intelligence help solve problems? Seems like other
> factors like curiosity, persistence, knowledge, creativity, charisma, etc.,
> play significant roles in solving real-world problems, but we don't ponder
> supercreative AIs or fear supercharismatic AIs (which we probably should,
> if such a thing is possible).
>
> -Dave
>
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