orthonormal comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: orthonormal 30 December 2011 11:27:23PM 4 points [-]

vastly inferior to a genuinely intellligent agent implemented with the same hardware technology

I agree. That's the point of the original comment- that "efficient use of resources" is as much a factor in our concept of intelligence as is "cross-domain problem-solving ability". A GLUT could have the latter, but not the former, attribute.

Comment author: timtyler 31 December 2011 01:53:42PM *  1 point [-]

"Cross-domain problem-solving ability" implicitly includes the idea that some types of problem may involve resource constraints. The issue is whether that point needs further explicit emphasis - in an informal definition of intelligence.