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

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 May 2013 01:55:31AM 1 point [-]

On the other hand, we're perfectly capable of acquiring skills that we didn't evolve to possess, e.g., flying planes.

Comment author: DanArmak 28 May 2013 07:10:09AM 1 point [-]

We do have a general intelligence. Without it we'd be just smart chimps.

But in most fields where we have a dedicated module - visual recognition, spatial modeling, controlling our bodies, speech recognition and processing and creation - our GI couldn't begin to replace it. And we haven't been able to easily create equivalent algorithms (and the problems aren't just computing power).