[ExI] 1DIQ: an IQ metaphor to explain superintelligence

[spike at rainier66.com]

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>...In Mensa UK, we used to joke that the really high IQ members needed a
man in a white coat to look after them. Like a Jeeves butler.  :) BillK
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BillK, we yanks are working that.  I have in mind a humanoid robot with that
flawless Jeevesian BBC English who just hangs around and keeps me out of
trouble.  Those will be huuuuge market items, particularly with the ageing
population pretty much everywhere.  We aren't as interested now in sports
cars, fast motorcycles, boats, planes, etc.  So now our play money will go
towards new fun stuff like humanoid robots.

I can easily imagine a kind of low-end C3PO character, can't really do much
(so there isn't a lot of wasted cost in dexterous hands (those things cost a
lot of money to make (so many actuators))) but doesn't really need to.  It
won't cook or fold clothing, doesn't need to.  But it does walk along with,
converse, look up stuff, attract attention (which is most of the goal of
showy toys) and such as that.

He will not wear a white coat however.  I had in mind a tasteful Edwardian
wardrobe, stuff that one can get almost free at the local food/clothing
bank, outdated stuff which was donated when their grandfather passed.  No
point in overlooking that resource, for the clothing would not need pressing
or dry cleaning much: the robot does not perspire.

If we have a bipedal robot with hands but not particularly capable ones,
bipedal, as graceful as possible, voice recognition and carry-along
StarLink, we might be able to make a Jeeves-bot hitting the 15k price point.
That's play money for some of the locals, who have a pile of filthy lucre
(they bought Tesla for a song a decade ago) but don't really want a sports
car, already have a luxury car, so what wasteful but kinda-show-offey
silliness do they buy next?  A Biden painting?  Nah, how about...a
Jeeves-bot?  That's just the thing to relieve them of the burden of some
that money they carry around like somebody who just came back from the
three-wishes genie.

spike