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

[John Clark]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


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> * > I understand that the way birds do it is to have smaller neurons than
> non-flying creatures. So their brains can be just as complex and
> inefficient, and probably are.*


*I think flying creatures have improved brain hardware and software
compared to non-flying creatures, but my point was that it's probably
easier for Evolution to modify software than hardware, so those smaller
neurons are probably wired up at least a little bit better.   *

*> It would be unusual, I think, for evolution to back-track and re-do a
> design that works well enough, no matter how unnecessarily complicated (see
> the usual list: Eye, Recurrent laryngeal nerve, etc., etc. None of those
> have been redesigned to be better, so I can't see it happening with brains
> (Richard Dawkins has a neat explanation for why this happens)). *
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*Yeah Dawkins is great, his book "The Extended Phenotype" is one of the
four or five books that has done the most in shaping my current worldview;
"The Selfish Gene" is also very good. *

*John K Clark*


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