[extropy-chat] Singularitarian verses singularity +HIGH IQS!

[Marc Geddes]

--- gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:38:38 -0500, Marc Geddes
> <m_j_geddes at yahoo.com.au>  
> wrote:
> 
> > IQ (and 'Intelligence' in a narrow sense) means:
> >
> > *The ability to make accurate models about
> functional
> > systems...
> ...
> >  *The ability to achieve one's goals efficiently. 
> i.e
> > The ability to maximize 'gains' in the utilitarian
> > sense...
> ...
> > *The ability to integrate different kinds of
> knowledge
> > into a single explanatory framework...
> 
> In the final analysis, isn't intelligence the
> ability to act in ways that  
> promote contentment and survival?

No.  'Contentment' and 'survival' are human goals.  No
reason why super-intelligences should have them. 
Further, any definition of intelligence should surely
involve cognitive processes, not end goals. 

> 
> It is true I think that intelligence requires the
> ability to make accurate  
> models, and the ability to achieve one's goals, and
> the ability to  
> integrate different kinds of knowledge into a single
> explanatory  
> framework. But I think these are only intermediary
> steps. They are  
> contained in the definition of intelligence but do
> not define it.
> 
> -gts
> 

Can you come up with a better definition than the
three I gave above?  I've been thinking about this
for... what... 3 years now.

I think my third definition does fully subsume all the
other definitions of intelligence.  From my
'Mathematico-Cognition Reality Theory':

"An individual mind which is
'functioning optimally' would model the reality
schematic shown.  Such a mind would optimally
integrate models of sentient behavior (memes) and
models of physical systems (functions).  But this was
exactly the suggested original aim of a TOE (Theory Of
Everything).  A TOE was defined to be a logical system
which integrated physical and mental concepts."

http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2005-December/023071.html

In other hands, I think in the final analysis
intelligence is the ability to fully integrate all
different kinds of knowledge into a single explanatory
framework (which ultimately comes down to integrating
memes with functions).





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