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This makes good points. And it articulates an idea I’ve been having trouble getting down. What if increasing intelligence is an exponential problem and the re
by bilsbie 3y ago
This makes good points.
And it articulates an idea I’ve been having trouble getting down.
What if increasing intelligence is an exponential problem and the reason humans all have somewhat similar intelligence isn’t that we peaked at some level but that even vast additional intelligence just doesn’t get much more traction against the universe of problems.
Eg doubling your compute doesn’t get you many more cities in the traveling salesman problem.
- FeepingCreature 3y agoIQ is robustly correlated with income though.
- passion__desire 3y agoIntelligence is culturally transmitted
- adrianN 3y agoIt is likely that even vastly more intelligence doesn't increase the number of children you raise to childbearing age in a hunter-gatherer or subsistence farming society. That says very little about vastly more intelligence in a modern industrial society (that only really existed for like ten generations so far).