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> Most of your intelligence is not actually yours. You’re confusing knowledge and intelligence
by kortilla 3y ago
> Most of your intelligence is not actually yours.
You’re confusing knowledge and intelligence
- orbital-decay 3y agoCompressed and abstracted knowledge is intelligence. Your intelligence is mostly formed by the quality training material, not just conditioned on it. Most of your ability to reason about the world and predict things, most of the abstractions you use, most of your emotional responses, etc. A simple concept of acceleration took the work of ancient philosophers to figure out. Even stateful counting in a positional system. Even the concept of a "concept" is not yours. Only a tiny bit of your reasoning depends on your actual biological capabilities and the work you did personally, as opposed to the humanity as a superorganism.