Tyrrell_McAllister comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 January 2010 04:36PM

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Comment author: komponisto 13 January 2010 04:47:06PM 1 point [-]

It seems surprising to me that Hofstadter would have difficulty having such a conversation today (even with a grad student), but maybe you've tried.

(And, of course, I was surprised when you recounted that he thought Einstein belonged in the transhuman end of the intelligence spectrum.)

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 13 January 2010 05:06:01PM * 2 points [-]

I was surprised when you recounted that he thought Einstein belonged in the transhuman end of the intelligence spectrum.

Did he think that? Or was it that Einstein was close to an upper bound on intelligence for any mind, artificial or otherwise?

ETA: Someone here once linked to a Usenet conversation in which Greg Egan expressed a similar view.

Comment author: komponisto 13 January 2010 05:15:06PM 0 points [-]

Well, either way, it's surprising.