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I think a more nuanced way of defining iii is that the intelligence an agent is capable of is limited by the extent to which it is capable of perceiving and int

I think a more nuanced way of defining iii is that the intelligence an agent is capable of is limited by the extent to which it is capable of perceiving and interacting with an environment. At one level this has to be true, if it weren't I could plop a black box on the table and say I've invented AGI it just can't interact with anyone, and you would have no recourse but accept my statement. We must necessarily define intelligence as the interaction that the agent can perform with some environment otherwise we'd have no way to know of its intelligence.

Nasrudith 7y ago
Reminds me of the joke about sci-fi intelligent plants - they would have to be a product of intelligent design because of how useless the massive energetic intake to maintain it would be to something sessile. The some sort of environment is an important distinction - even if smart enough to derive linguistic translation on its own through "first contact" it could suggest we should generate free energy through floating point error exploits and destroy excess heat using the same because that worked perfectly well in its environment and it had no indication that wouldn't be possible in the real world.