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Cached knowledge is not intelligence

11 pointsby speckxtoday at 5:56 PM2 commentsview on HN

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nialsetoday at 7:42 PM

- Yes it is!

- No, it isn’t.

Is it intelligence to attribute this quote to Monty Python, or isn’t it?

Remembering things is traditionally considered a part of intelligence, memory that is. The subject has been discussed for ages. Personally I favor the statistical definition based on the observation that given a range of different intelligence tasks, individuals that succeed in one task generally succeed in other tasks. There is shared variance, a g-factor. Intelligence.

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canary_bird_001today at 7:34 PM

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