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niceguyanon comments on What is the difference between rationality and intelligence? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: niceguyanon 13 August 2014 05:42:11PM 0 points [-]

Intelligence is how efficient and effective you can model the real world or a problem.

Rationality is the ability to overcome biases and apply that model that is of sufficient calibration and credence, to generate the most expected value.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 August 2014 07:06:45PM 1 point [-]

I think you are confusing unqualified 'intelligence' with 'general intelligence'. There is no factor X for which you can just multiply the computational power of Deep Blue and end up with a driverless car. The ability to adapt to entirely novel domains requires a think-about-thinking ability which Wei Dai identifies as being perhaps identical to bounded rationality.