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> Of course we don't know one way or the other, but it seems to me that it's possible that we're already roughly as intelligent as it's possible to be. No, the
by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
> Of course we don't know one way or the other, but it seems to me that it's possible that we're already roughly as intelligent as it's possible to be.
No, there's clearly at least one human smarter than you.
- mindcrime 11y agoWait, what? I'm sure there are a lot of humans smarter than me. I'm talking about the overall approximate intelligence of humans in a general sense, not any specific individual.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoI certainly think there are individuals within our species whose cognitive algorithms are performing near-optimally. I just also have very good reason to think I can develop some algorithms that are better for certain tasks than the ones I consist in: I think there's sometimes more information in our sensory data than we take advantage of, and I think that better algorithms could tie together sensing and decision-making to obtain better data more often. Our brains "bite the Bayesian bullet" a bit too hard, accepting noisy data as-is and just making whatever inferences are feasible, rather than computing how to obtain clearer, less-noisy data (which is why we developed science as a form of domain knowledge rather than as an intuitive algorithm).