rote memorization is always labor-intensive no matter how smart you are
I don’t think this is true. I think people vary in the number of repetitions they need to be able to recall something. (conclusion formed via anecdotal evidence only)
The answer of course was that most of the other people playing online had played a hell of a lot more Starcraft than me.
Hyporational’s “domain specific intelligence” refers to when two different people put in the same amount on effort and knowledge on two different tasks, and person 1 performs better on task A and person 2 performs better on task B.
Meaning, someone could be better than you not because they worked harder and not because they are more knowledgeable and not because they’re just smarter in general for every dimension, but because they are smarter in the dimensions relevant to the task.
If you attribute someone beating you because they worked harder (memorization) or were more knowledgeable (starcraft) then you effectively don’t attribute their better performance to intelligence. The idea behind bringing up “domain specific intelligence” is to make it harder to exclude the hypothesis that they are better at activity X because they are smarter at activity X based on the fact that they were clearly dumber when it came to activity Y.
I think it makes sense not to include this in the post, though...it seems like a rather different topic.
I don’t think this is true. I think people vary in the number of repetitions they need to be able to recall something. (conclusion formed via anecdotal evidence only)
Hyporational’s “domain specific intelligence” refers to when two different people put in the same amount on effort and knowledge on two different tasks, and person 1 performs better on task A and person 2 performs better on task B.
Meaning, someone could be better than you not because they worked harder and not because they are more knowledgeable and not because they’re just smarter in general for every dimension, but because they are smarter in the dimensions relevant to the task.
If you attribute someone beating you because they worked harder (memorization) or were more knowledgeable (starcraft) then you effectively don’t attribute their better performance to intelligence. The idea behind bringing up “domain specific intelligence” is to make it harder to exclude the hypothesis that they are better at activity X because they are smarter at activity X based on the fact that they were clearly dumber when it came to activity Y.
I think it makes sense not to include this in the post, though...it seems like a rather different topic.