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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 8:04 PM0 repliesview on HN

Think of it as social intelligence if the term “emotional” bothers you.

Solitary intelligence, in the wild, is just a different beast from tracking the exponential complexity of a social system. Everything we see—in biology, psychology and artificial intelligence—indicates that while these functions seem to share resources (you can't be an emotionally-intelligent idiot), they are distinct, with folks (and animals) possessing a lot of one and little of the other being observed, and their handicaps resulting from the lacking part being observeable, too,