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0 pointsowenpalmer1y ago0 comments

> a student who gets 100% on a problem set in 10 minutes is more intelligent than one with the same score after 120 minutes

According to my mathematical model, the faster student would have higher effectiveness, not necessarily higher intelligence. Resource consumption and speed are practical technological concerns, but they're irrelevant in a theorical conceptualization of intelligence.

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baq1y ago

If you disregard time, all computers have maximal intelligence, they can enumerate all programs and compute answers to any decidable question.

wouldbecouldbe1y ago

Yeah speed is a key factor in intelligence. And actually one of the biggest differentiators in human iq measurements

eru1y ago

Humans are a bit annoying that way, because it's all correlated.

So a human with a better response time, also tends to give you more intelligent answers, even when time is not a factor.

For a computer, you can arbitrarily slow them down (or speed them up), and still get the same answer.

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