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by dangitnotagain 1103 days ago
1) Intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty, if it does not mitigate uncertainty it is not intelligent.

2) Compose challenges in which successful criteria exists, without known or obvious established solutions. Grade these by complexity.
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LatteLazy 1103 days ago
Your first definition would include Wikipedia (or even a printed encyclopedia or other reference material, technically it would include a tape-measure, sorry.). Is Wikipedia intelligent? It is likely both Artificial and General so I think we are there, Skynet is upon us and it is user editable!

This is the difficulty of any definition of intelligence: it fails as soon as it is applied...

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dangitnotagain 1102 days ago
Those things you mentioned are not “mitigating” in the verb sense, the intelligence USES those things to INTELLIGENTLY mitigate “uncertainties”.

If you cannot see Wikipedia and a tape-measure as both the product and resources of intelligence, you’re failing yourself somehow.

The definition I have given remains superior!

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dangitnotagain 1102 days ago
Btw, information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty, it is not information.

You can see how these simple truths interrelate.

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