Brillyant comments on Could a digital intelligence be bad at math? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 20 January 2016 06:00:20AM 15 points [-]

Humans are not bad at math. We are excellent at math. We can calculate the best trajectory to throw a ball into a hoop, the exact way to move our jiggly appendages to achieve it, accounting for a million little details, all in a blink of an eye. Few if any modern computers can do as well.

The problem is one of the definition: we call "math" the part of math that is HARD FOR HUMANS. Because why bother giving a special name to something that does not require special learning techniques?

Comment author: Brillyant 20 January 2016 06:39:40PM -1 points [-]

jiggly appendages

Do you have tentacles?