kgalias comments on Superintelligence Reading Group - Section 1: Past Developments and Present Capabilities - Less Wrong

25 Post author: KatjaGrace 16 September 2014 01:00AM

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Comment author: kgalias 16 September 2014 11:27:20PM 2 points [-]

I'm just trying to make sure I understand - I remember being confused about the Flynn effect and about what Katja asked above.

How does the Flynn effect affect our belief in the hypothesis of accumulation?

Comment author: gallabytes 17 September 2014 02:25:08AM 2 points [-]

It just means that the intelligence gap was smaller, potentially much, much smaller, when humans first started developing a serious edge relative to apes. It's not evidence for accumulation per se, but it's evidence against us just being so much smarter from the get go, and renormalizing has it function very much like evidence for accumulation.