Re: Boy Genius or Craft Idiot?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 13:15:03 MDT

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    Natasha Vita-More wrote:
    > At 05:53 PM 5/31/03 -0400, Spudboy wrote:
    >
    >> On the other hand, if someone believes in Odin or Leprechauns, and
    >> still is a prodigious intellect; what does that say?
    >
    > More evidence that a person with a high IQ does not necessarily have
    > worldliness.

    Not until you actually produce such a person. Let us not reason from
    abduction on hypothetical evidence. 

    -- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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