Intelligence
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Intelligence
In late 1970, Lockheed was near bankruptcy because of the large debt they had built up to fund the L-1011 Tristar commercial aircraft program. They approached the Nixon administration for a $250 million loan guarantee to avoid insolvency. That is about $1.9 billion in today’s dollars. Here was an opportunity to transfer the assets to a private... See more
Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program
People who are good at solving poorly defined problems don't get the same kind of kudos. They don’t get any special titles or clubs. There is no test they can take that will spit out a big, honking number that will make everybody respect them.
And that’s a shame. My grandma does not know how to use the “input” button on her TV’s remote control, but... See more
And that’s a shame. My grandma does not know how to use the “input” button on her TV’s remote control, but... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
Some people are intelligent but don’t have a lick of smarts. Their ability to succeed in the world might surprise you on the downside.
Others lack intelligence but gush smarts. Their potential will surprise you on the upside.
On rare occasions you meet people who are both intelligent and smart. They run laps around everyone.
I’d define intelligence... See more
Others lack intelligence but gush smarts. Their potential will surprise you on the upside.
On rare occasions you meet people who are both intelligent and smart. They run laps around everyone.
I’d define intelligence... See more
from Jeff Bezos on the Lex Fridman podcast:
there are 1000 ways to be smart. when I go around and I meet people, I'm always looking for the way that they're smart. and you find that's one of the things that makes the world so interesting and fun, is that it's not like IQ is a single dimension. There are people who are smart in such unique ways.
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
One of the most remarkable traits of human intelligence, highlighted by the GMM, is opportunistic learning: the ability to draw a lasting rule from a very small number of experiences, sometimes just one. This stands in stark contrast to AI’s dominant approach, based on massive data repetition. For humans, a single experience, especially if... See more
as much about following the pattern as knowing when to break it
Schools are good at teaching and measuring intelligence, so that’s what people tend to value and aspire to. But in almost any field, smarts is what gets rewarded long term.
You cannot measure empathy like you can SAT scores, so it’s not surprising that one is given more weight on resumes. But who is more likely to succeed in life – a person whose... See more
You cannot measure empathy like you can SAT scores, so it’s not surprising that one is given more weight on resumes. But who is more likely to succeed in life – a person whose... See more
The heart actually has a brain-like intelligence of its own. Within the heart are tens of thousands of neurons, neurotransmitters, and support cells similar to those in the brain, enabling it to process information, learn, remember, and even sense its environment independently. This network helps our heart sense things and make decisions all on its... See more
The Way of the Heart
