Alicorn comments on My Childhood Death Spiral - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 September 2008 03:42AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 14 July 2009 09:20:54PM *  16 points [-]

Agreed. A lot of what we call intelligence is really speed - both in the short run (how long it takes you to add two numbers in your head, for instance) and in the longer run (how long it takes you to accomplish your ambitious projects). Ten million dollars would free up so much time and let you fake so much long-term speed that it would almost certainly be a gain if you got it for one IQ point. Not that anyone's actually offering this trade.