(My day-to-day job is literally to tackle the 'generality' of intelligence)
While having high IQ/g is useful, it is not what lies at the core of great performance. Having developed 'intelligences' around the task you're tackling, + determination/commitment/obsession, + agency is what creates great results.
I think it's better to focus on things one could change/train, sadly IQ/g is not one those things.
There is a book called The Culture Map. It maps behavioral differences across cultures including related to genuineness. For example in cultures with a direct attitude to criticism/feedback you can be more certain that some comment is truthful than in cultures with indirect feedback. (And more so if the comment is harsh)
“Alan Turing started off by wanting to 'build the brain' and ended up with a computer”
- Henry Markram, The Blue Brain Project
...Recently I’ve come to terms with the idea that I have to publish my research even if it feels unfinished or slightly controversial. The mind is too complex (who would have thought), each time you think you get something, the new bit comes up and crushes your model. Time after time after time. So, waiting for at least remotely good answers i
if the problems are the same, it (evolution) often finds the same solution"
- Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
Neural Darwinism, also known as the theory of neuronal group selection, is a theory that proposes that the development and organisation of the brain is similar to the process of biological evolution. According to this theory, the brain is composed of a large number of neural networks that compete with each other for resources and survival, much ...
"Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. It works with what is already there and takes the path of least resistance.
It is not always the most efficient solution, but it is the dumbest solution that works."
-François Jacob, "The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity"
Reverse engineering complex systems is a tricky problem. Look for example at the design of modern microprocessors, how easy it would be to see the underlying principle of the Turing machine behind all th...
"Is an ant colony an organism, or is an organism a colony?"
- Mark A. ChangiziAs of now, there are two kinds of evolution: genetic evolution and memetic evolution. The first one is your usual evolution concerned with "change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations", responsible for all the biological diversity that we know, and happening on the scale of at least hundreds of years. Memetic evolution, strict...
The ultimate goal of this line of research is to gain a better understanding of how human value system operates. The problem I see regarding current approaches to studying values is that we cannot study {values/desires/preferences} in isolation from the rest of cognitive mechanisms, cause according to latest theories values are just a part of a broader system governing behaviour in general. With that you have to have a decent model of human behaviour first to then be able to explain ...
For me, it's all about getting more posts on that topic. A post could be bad in terms of text quality. It could be "false" or badly reasoned. But if I consider the topic underrated I will upvote it.
Agreed. That said, some efforts in this direction do exist. for example Ekdeep Singh Lubana and his Explaining Emergence in NN with Model Systems Analysis
https://ekdeepslubana.github.io/