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Manfred comments on Why an Intelligence Explosion might be a Low-Priority Global Risk - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 14 November 2011 11:07:04PM 1 point [-]

I don't think that really captures the idea of intelligence. A sufficiently patient calculator can churn out the 10^10th digit of pi by caluclating pi, but an intelligent calculator would figure out how to do it in about a minute on my desktop computer.

The point being that the label "dumb luck," while vaguely accurate, views discovery too much as a black box. Which is sort of ironic from this article.