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Cyan comments on The metaphor/myth of general intelligence - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 August 2014 04:04PM

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Comment author: Cyan 19 August 2014 08:35:33PM *  3 points [-]

Meh. That's only a problem in practice, not in principle. In principle, all prediction problems can be reduced to binary sequence prediction. (By which I mean, in principle there's only one "area".)

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 20 August 2014 10:40:55AM 2 points [-]

And is thinking in terms of that principle leading us astray in practice? After all, humans don't learn social interactions by reducing it to bit sequence prediction...

Comment author: Cyan 20 August 2014 02:33:30PM *  1 point [-]

No, we totally do... in principle.