jsteinhardt comments on How minimal is our intelligence? - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Douglas_Reay 25 November 2012 11:34PM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 22 November 2012 08:21:21PM 1 point [-]

How much training is necessary for them to do this? Humans can reason this out without any training, if the chimps had to be trained substantially (e.g. first starting with one box, being rewarded with food, then starting with two boxes, etc.) then I think this would constitute a difference.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 November 2012 08:27:22PM 4 points [-]

Well, one could argue that humans "train" for similar problems throughout their lives... Would you expect a feral child to figure that out straight away?