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Cached knowledge is not intelligence

Posted by speckx |3 hours ago |3 comments

nialse an hour ago[1 more]

- Yes it is!

- No, it isn’t.

Is it intelligence to attribute this quote to Monty Python, or isn’t it?

Remembering things is traditionally considered a part of intelligence, memory that is. The subject has been discussed for ages. Personally I favor the statistical definition based on the observation that given a range of different intelligence tasks, individuals that succeed in one task generally succeed in other tasks. There is shared variance, a g-factor. Intelligence.

malux85 27 minutes ago

Intelligence is a factor of many things - this just talking about domain knowledge, which is pretty blunt and naive view of intelligence.

Intelligence is: Domain knowledge, ability to abstract, ability to compose, creative fluidity (idea generation rate), creative originality (new idea novelty), ability to empathize as well as understand and navigate complex social dynamics, metacognitive ability, and much much more

Often the reduction of intelligence to something simpler is "the engineers fallacy" - an engineering mind is so desperate to quantify something numerically, they oversimplify to try and get some scalar value they can maximize; but the cold hard truth is that the over simplification is too basic to encapsulate the important things, which are often not easily quantifiable numerically

canary_bird_001 an hour ago

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