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WarmWash • today at 3:48 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Intelligence is an arbitrary term humans assign to stuff subjectively.

Take out the "human" and it's all just algos on a scale of complexity.


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pkoird • today at 3:55 PM

Agreed. Take human out and any system capable of doing an if-else is intelligent to a certain degree.

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verdverm • today at 5:29 PM

psychology also has favored behavioralism for a long time, such that if something displays the behavior, it is likely the same thing as that which we believe/know has the behavior already

It's come to be foundational to much of western thinking beyond psychology

A topical example is a portion of society believing that the top Ai researchers should be setting domestic political and economic policy, foreign affairs, and chem/bio weapon controls... instead of the experts in those fields. We extrapolate their above average capabilities in building Ai into an artificial general intelligence where it is not due.