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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 20 August 2014 10:39:07AM 1 point [-]

It's relevant to exposing some maybe unjustified metaphors. And, actually, if humans were generally intelligent, especially without computers, this would a) surprise me and b) be strong evidence for a single-ish scale of intelligence.