logoalt Hacker News

Lercyesterday at 12:22 PM1 replyview on HN

>a) working memory (hold & manipulate information in mind simultaneously)

What counts as 'in mind' is undefined. You can succeed by declaring anything manipulatable counts as in.

>c) fluid intelligence (ability to reason through novel problems without relying on prior knowledge)

reasoning presupposes the conclusion. Solve is better. When a solution is given you cannot declare it to be not a solution. People can and do argue about if a answer was arrived at by reasoning even when they agree on the correctness.

>g) spatial / visuospatial reasoning (mental rotation, visualization, navigating abstract spatial relationships)

I have aphantasia, why should you exclude something from being intelligent because it cannot do something that I also cannot do.


Replies

andsoitisyesterday at 2:50 PM

> I have aphantasia, why should you exclude something from being intelligent

Intelligence exists on a spectrum. Amongst different species (living and non-living) and also within species (amongst individuals).

Some dimensions of intelligence are more important that others in different contexts, so a systems that might be “dumber” than another in one context, can be smarter in a different context.