magfrump comments on General intelligence test: no domains of stupidity - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 May 2013 04:04PM

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Comment author: magfrump 22 May 2013 05:12:23AM 4 points [-]

People fail at novel environments as mundane as needing to find a typo in an html file or paying attention to fact-checks during political debates. You don't have to come up with extreme philosophical counterexamples to find domains in which it's interesting to distinguish between the behavior of different non-experts (and such that these differences feel like "intelligence").