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delichonyesterday at 12:00 AM1 replyview on HN

> I like this version of the meme for pointing out that human intelligence is also jagged in its own different way.

The idea of jaggedicity seems useful to advancing epistemology. If we could identify the domains that have useful data that we fail to extract, we could fill those holes and eventually become a general intelligence ourselves. The task may be as hard as making a list of your blind spots. But now we have an alien intelligence with an outside perspective. While making AI less jagged it might return the favor.

If we keep inventing different kinds of intelligence the sum of the splats may eventually become well rounded.


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visargayesterday at 6:52 AM

I don't think it will become well rounded because that is not cost sensitive. Intelligence is sensitive to cost, it is the core constraint shaping it. Any action has a cost - energy, materials, time, opportunity or social. Intelligence is solving the cost equation, if we can't solve it we die. Cost is also why we specialize, in a group we can offload some intelligence to others. LLMs also have their own costs, and are shaped by it into some kind of jagged intelligence, they are no spherical cows either.