alt Hacker NewsThis seems pretty obvious doesn’t it?
Like the point of being more intelligent than someone or something is to an extent being able to simulate their brain and thinking with your own brain.
We’re cleverer than animals because we can simulate all their actions before they do them.
You can’t simulate something more advanced than yourself.
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dist-epoch • yesterday at 9:53 PM
> You can’t simulate something more advanced than yourself.
Sometimes you can given more time. Many times being more intelligent is arriving at a conclusion faster without wasting as much on dead ends.
A bad analogy: Magnus Carlson making a move in seconds and still defeating his opponent which has minutes for a move.
> This seems pretty obvious doesn’t it?
The opposite conclusion would also be obvious. We're a social species that might have deep primitives for evaluating the intelligence of another without needing to simulate the whole shebang.