whpearson comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whpearson 02 January 2010 11:20:55AM 0 points [-]

I was thinking of the more mathematical definitions of intelligence that just give a scalar average performance over lots of different worlds. They can still be consistant as they track the history and agents might do better in worlds they believe that their intelligence changes. As they might do better in worlds where they are given calculators.

If simple things like the ownership of calculators can change your intelligence, is it right to think of it as something stable you can apply fission like exponential growth on.