CronoDAS comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong
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We who are the first intelligences ever to exist ... our tiny little brains at the uttermost dawn of mind ... as awkward as the first replicator (2:01 in).
Selection pressure might be even weaker a lot of the time than a 3% fitness advantage having a 6% chance of becoming universal in the gene pool, or at least it's more complicated-- a lot of changes don't offer a stable advantage over long periods.
I think natural selection and human intelligence at this point can't really be compared for strength. Each is doing things that the other can't-- afaik, we don't know how to deliberately create organisms which can outcompete their wild conspecifics. (Or is it just that there's no reason to try and/or we have too much sense to do the experiments?)
And we certainly don't know how to deliberately design a creature which could thrive in the wild, though some animals which have been selectively bred for human purposes do well as ferals.
This point may be a nitpick since it doesn't address how far human intelligence can go.
Another example of attribution error: Why would Gimli think that Galadriel is beautiful?
Eliezer made a very interesting claim-- that current hardware is sufficient for AI. Details?
Why do humans think dolphins are beautiful?
Is a human likely to think that one specific dolphin is so beautiful as to be almost worth fighting a duel about it being the most beautiful?
Well, it's always possible that Gimli was a zoophile.
Yeah, I mean have you seen Dwarven women?
I'm a human and can easily imagine being attracted to Galadriel :) I can't speak for dwarves.
Well, elves were intelligently designed to specifically be attractive to humans...