[ExI] What would an IQ of 500 or 1000 look like?

[Tara Maya]

Well, I don’t know about you, but I’ve already lost the ability to hunt wild food in packs. 

Tara Maya
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> On May 25, 2015, at 7:43 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> 
> Anders replied:
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>> I think a better approach would be to consider how an animal would 
>> perceive human intelligence.
>> We do incomprehensible or arbitrary things - ...-- David.
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> This has been an interesting fun exercise, since BillW made a comment months
> ago, raising a question of whether dogs reason.  Anyone who had or has a dog
> does not ask that question, for we know that dogs do reason, some better
> than others.  I have often wondered what dogs think of humans and how we can
> apply the insights to how we would relate to another intelligent species or
> AI.
> 
> From a dog's point of view, humans can make all kinds of magic happen,
> perhaps the most important: making appear an endless supply of dog food.
> The humans can solve so many problems, but we cannot manage what every dog
> can do: identify people and beasts by sniffing them.
> 
> Being fed every day from cans, domestic dogs soon lose the instincts to hunt
> in packs and survive in the wild.
> 
> Imagine an advanced AI which figures out how to do a lot of things we still
> haven't mastered, but still lacks some basic skill common to nearly all
> humans.  They want to keep the humans as pets, to do for them something
> analogous to what dogs do for humans.  Long before the software becomes AI
> (in any sense) it takes over some basic tasks.  Humans no longer need to
> master those tasks, so we (like domestic dogs) soon lose the collective
> ability.  I see evidence of collective ability slipping away everywhere.
> 
> spike
> 
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