timtyler comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: timtyler 30 December 2011 01:09:54PM *  1 point [-]

What exactly is the difference in meaning of "intelligence", "rationality", and "optimization power" as used on this site?

"Intelligence" is often defined as being the "g-factor" of humans - which is a pretty sucky definition of "rationality".

Go to definitions of "intelligence" used by machine intelligence researchers and it's much closer to "rationality".