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JoshuaFox comments on Superintelligence 5: Forms of Superintelligence - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 15 October 2014 09:18:39AM 2 points [-]

Wisdom is goal-oriented thinking. Intelligence is the type of calculations that should go into optimization towards goals but are often misdirected. You can optimize steadily but weakly towards a goal, or you can make calculations and make decisions with high power, but shooting in all directions.