No, because I don’t believe in using IQ as a measure of intelligence (having taken an IQ test) and I think accomplishments are a better measure (quality over quantity obviously). If you have a better measure then fine.
Do you think that accomplishments, when present, are fairly accurate proof of intelligence (and that you are skeptical of claims thereto without said proof), but that intelligence can sometimes exist in their absence; or do you claim something stronger?
Eliezer invoked the notion of intelligent insanity in response to Aumann’s approach to the absent-minded driver problem. In this case, what was Aumann efficiently optimizing in spite of his own wishes?
“Do you think that accomplishments, when present, are fairly accurate proof of intelligence (and that you are skeptical of claims thereto without said proof)”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. The only addition would be that IQ is an insufficient measure although it can be useful when combined with accomplishment.
I think accomplishments are a better measure (quality over quantity obviously)
I once came third in a marathon. How smart am I? If I increase my mileage to a level that would be required for me to come first would that make me smarter? Does the same apply when I’m trying to walk in 40 years?
ETA: I thought I cancelled this one. Nevermind, I stand by my point. Achievement is the best predictor of future achievement. It isn’t a particularly good measure of intelligence. Achievement shows far more about what kind of things someone is inclined to achieve (and signal) as well as how well they are able to motivate themselves than it does about intelligence (see, for example, every second page here). Accomplishments are better measures than IQ, but they are not a measure of intelligence at all.
No, because I don’t believe in using IQ as a measure of intelligence (having taken an IQ test) and I think accomplishments are a better measure (quality over quantity obviously). If you have a better measure then fine.
What do you think “intelligence” is?
Do you think that accomplishments, when present, are fairly accurate proof of intelligence (and that you are skeptical of claims thereto without said proof), but that intelligence can sometimes exist in their absence; or do you claim something stronger?
Previously, Eliezer has said that intelligence is efficient optimization.
I have trouble meshing this definition with the concept of intelligent insanity.
Intelligently insane efficiently optimize stuff in the way they don’t want it optimized.
Eliezer invoked the notion of intelligent insanity in response to Aumann’s approach to the absent-minded driver problem. In this case, what was Aumann efficiently optimizing in spite of his own wishes?
“Do you think that accomplishments, when present, are fairly accurate proof of intelligence (and that you are skeptical of claims thereto without said proof)”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. The only addition would be that IQ is an insufficient measure although it can be useful when combined with accomplishment.
I once came third in a marathon. How smart am I? If I increase my mileage to a level that would be required for me to come first would that make me smarter? Does the same apply when I’m trying to walk in 40 years?
ETA: I thought I cancelled this one. Nevermind, I stand by my point. Achievement is the best predictor of future achievement. It isn’t a particularly good measure of intelligence. Achievement shows far more about what kind of things someone is inclined to achieve (and signal) as well as how well they are able to motivate themselves than it does about intelligence (see, for example, every second page here). Accomplishments are better measures than IQ, but they are not a measure of intelligence at all.