wedrifid comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 September 2010 06:36:15PM 2 points [-]

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?

Comment author: Shalmanese 09 September 2010 04:14:02AM 1 point [-]

"Another example of attribution error: Why would Gimli think that Galadriel is beautiful?"

A waist:hip:thigh ratio between 0.6 & 0.8 & a highly symmetric fce.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 September 2010 06:00:08AM 8 points [-]

A waist:hip:thigh ratio between 0.6 & 0.8 & a highly symmetric fce.

But she doesn't even have a beard!

Comment author: gnovos 09 September 2010 03:10:11PM 6 points [-]

but he did have a preoccupation with her hair...